Central High School is a historic

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building located near Painter,

Accomack County, Virginia Accomack County is a United States county located in the eastern edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Together, Accomack and Northampton counties make up the Eastern Shore of Virginia, which in turn is part of the Delmarva Peninsula, bordere ...

. It was built in 1932, with an addition in 1935, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped, brick building with brick and stone detailing in the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style. The 1935 addition was funded by the Public Works Administration. The building served as a high school until 1984, when it was converted to a middle school. Also on the property are a contributing one-story wood-frame double classroom building, one-story

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building, and a one-story

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style dwelling that served as the

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building. an
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in 2011.

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Public Works Administration in Virginia School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia Art Deco architecture in Virginia School buildings completed in 1935 National Register of Historic Places in Accomack County, Virginia 1935 establishments in Virginia {{AccomackCountyVA-NRHP-stub