Hopewell School (Cedar Creek, Texas)


Hopewell School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Hopewell School undergoing renovation in 2016
Show map of Texas Show map of the US
Location	690 State Highway 21 West, Cedar Creek, Texas
Coordinates	30°05′55″N 97°57′40.5″W / 30.09861°N 97.961250°W / 30.09861; -97.961250Coordinates: 30°05′55″N 97°57′40.5″W / 30.09861°N 97.961250°W / 30.09861; -97.961250
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1921-1922
Architectural style	Craftsman
NRHP Reference #	15000334^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 15, 2015

Hopewell School, also known as the Hopewell-Rosenwald School, is a former African American school in Cedar Creek, Texas, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 15, 2015. The school was built in 1921-1922 with assistance from the Rosenwald Fund. The school opened in 1922 and closed in the late 1950s.

The school was initially funded by a monetary and a land grant from Martin and Sophia MacDonald of Bastrop County and the Rosenwald Fund. It was built by local residents to educate young African American children during the early to mid 1900’s, a time of racial segregation in the United States.

Restoration

After the school closed, the building fell into disrepair. In 2015, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative awarded a $50,000 capital grant to the Hopewell-Rosenwald Community School Project to help convert the building into a community center. Workers from American YouthWorks will help with the repairs.^[2]

References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Gamino, Denise. "Bluebonnet grants $1.2 million to 38 area nonprofits".Texas Co-op Power, Jan 2016, p20.

External links

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types

Lists by states	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands

Lists by associated states	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau

Other areas	District of Columbia Morocco

Portal WikiProject

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.