Garnet High School

	Garnet High School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Garnet High School, April 2009
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Location	422 Dickinson St., Charleston, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°21′4″N 81°37′48″W / 38.35111°N 81.63000°WCoordinates: 38°21′4″N 81°37′48″W / 38.35111°N 81.63000°W
Built	1928
Architect	Warne, Tucker, Silling & Hutchison
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	90001068
Added to NRHP	July 24, 1990

Garnet High School, also known as Garnet Career Center and Garnet Adult Education Center, is a historic African-American high school in Charleston, West Virginia. The school was established when "twelve African-American students in Kanawha County passed an entrance examination for high school level course work."^[2] It was named after Henry Highland Garnet, who was a former slave that became the United States’ ambassador to Liberia.^[2] It is a three-story, brick structure, constructed in 1928-29 from the plans of the prestigious Charleston architectural firm of Warne, Tucker, Silling and Hutchison, and dedicated December 2 to 4, 1929. The façade features a limestone-arched entrance containing two sets of double doors, transom light, and a limestone tympanum. Garnet was one of three high schools in the Kanawha Valley built for African-American students. It closed as a high school in 1956, following integration of the public schools,^[2] but has been used as a public resource building since that time.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

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Garnet High School entry, April 2009

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Integration of Garnet High School, Charleston, West Virginia". The Carter Woodson Project. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). Garnet High School. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. 2009-04-04.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[:0-2] "Integration of Garnet High School, Charleston, West Virginia". The Carter Woodson Project. Retrieved 2021-05-17.

[dhr-3] "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). Garnet High School. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. 2009-04-04.

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