Freetown Rosenwald School

Freetown Rosenwald School
Freetown Rosenwald School, December 2009
Location 7825 Freetown Rd., Glen Burnie, Maryland
Coordinates 39°8′27″N 76°34′38″W / 39.14083°N 76.57722°W / 39.14083; -76.57722Coordinates: 39°8′27″N 76°34′38″W / 39.14083°N 76.57722°W / 39.14083; -76.57722
Area 1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built 1924
Architectural style Rosenwald Two Room Shop-B
MPS Rosenwald Schools of Anne Arundel County, Maryland MPS
NRHP reference # 07000943[1]
Added to NRHP September 12, 2007

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]

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

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  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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