Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, New Orleans
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Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, New Orleans
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Phillis Wheatley Elementary School is a school in New Orleans. The original school building was designed by the architect Charles Colbert in 1954 as a segregated school for African-American students. The cantilevered steel truss structure allowed for a covered play space underneath. The primary school building did not flood after Hurricane Katrina, but it remained closed. On June 17, 2011, the school was demolished, despite an 11th hour protest to save the building. In 2014, a newly constructed
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School
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2023-07-20T13:28:22Z
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