Coinjock Colored School is a historic

Rosenwald school The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partn ...

building for African-American students located at Coinjock,

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. It was built in 1920, and is a one-story frame, side-gable-roof, two-classroom school building with

American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. ...

style design elements. The school was one of three Rosenwald schools built in Currituck County. It housed a school until 1950. It was listed on the

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in 2013.

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Rosenwald schools in North Carolina School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina School buildings completed in 1920 Buildings and structures in Currituck County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Currituck County, North Carolina 1920 establishments in North Carolina {{CurrituckCountyNC-NRHP-stub