Weston Colored School

United States historic place


Weston Colored School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property


39°2′23″N 80°27′53″W / 39.03972°N 80.46472°W / 39.03972; -80.46472
Area	less than one acre
Architectural style	Mission/spanish Revival
NRHP reference No.	93000224^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1993

Weston Colored School, also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1882, and is a single-story rubbed red brick building on a fieldstone foundation. It originally measured 22feet by 28feet, then enlarged in 1928 by 12feet, 6inches. It was used as an educational facility for the community's African-American youth until desegregation in 1954. It was subsequently used for storage, then an agricultural classroom for the Lewis County High School,^[2] and as a shop for mentally disabled students. It afterwards was used by the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is located in the Weston Downtown Residential Historic District, listed in 2005.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Mountaineer Military Museum, Previously Weston Colored School, 1882-1954". Clio. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
^ Joy Gregoire Gilchrist (December 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Weston Colored School" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.