The Virginia Avenue Colored School is a historic school building at 3628 Virginia Avenue in
Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1923 to address overcrowding of a 1915 building, the school was the city's first purpose-built segregated school for African-Americans. It was built by
Samuel M. Plato, a prolific local African-American building contractor, and is Renaissance Revival in style. It was enlarged in 1954 and again in 1969 in an attempt to stave off forced integration. It was renamed Jessie R. Carter Elementary School in 1970, and was finally integrated in 1975.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
It presently houses the
West End School
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, a private
boarding school
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for boys up to 8th grade.
See also
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References
National Register of Historic Places in Louisville, Kentucky
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
Renaissance Revival architecture in Kentucky
School buildings completed in 1923
Buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky
1923 establishments in Kentucky
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