Second Ward Negro Elementary School

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Second Ward Negro Elementary School, also known as the Second Ward Annex, is a historic building in Morgantown, West Virginia. Built in 1938–39 with funds from the Works Progress Administration, the one-story (plus basement), T-shaped brick building sits on a sandstone foundation in the Art Deco style. It served African American students and the community as a school and community center until segregation ended in 1954. In the 1960s, it reopened as a school annex and an Instructional Materials Center, but it stopped being used as a school in 1993. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 and is part of the Greenmont Historic District, listed in 2005.