Global InformationOkolona Colored High School Gymnasium information
Okolona Colored High School Gymnasium | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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  Location in Arkansas  Location in United States | |
| Location | 767 Layne Street, Okolona, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 33°59′35″N 93°20′23″W / 33.99306°N 93.33972°W |
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built | c. 1950 |
| NRHP reference No. | 11000686[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 23, 2011 |
The Okolona Colored High School Gymnasium is a historic academic athletic building at 767 Layne Street in Okolona, Arkansas. It is the only surviving building of a school campus built c. 1950 to provide schooling to local African-American students. The building is a large rectangular structure with no significant stylistic elements. Its walls are primarily corrugated metal, although a portion of the front and sides near the front are composed of clay tile blocks. The campus it was a part of began in 1928 with a modest two-room school building constructed with supported from the Rosenwald Fund, and grew over the years to include vocational and home economics facilities, in addition to a cafeteria and additional classrooms. The gymnasium was designed to serve as a multi-function athletic facility and meeting space for the local African-American community. The Okolona schools were consolidated with those of neighboring Simmons, and all of the other buildings of this campus were demolished in the 1970s and 1980s.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Okolona Colored High School Gymnasium". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-09-05.