Freetown_Rosenwald_School

Freetown Rosenwald School

Freetown Rosenwald School

United States historic place


Freetown Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school building in the historic African American community of Freetown at Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a simple, one-story, gable-roofed, rectangular frame building. The exterior walls are sheathed in aluminum siding and the gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles and displays minimal overhang. It was built in 1924–25, by the school construction program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, to serve the local African American community. It is one of ten Rosenwald Schools surviving in Anne Arundel County.[2]

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]


References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Lillie Caldwell (January 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Freetown Rosenwald School" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.



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