Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children

Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
The Quarry Street building of the Witherspoon School, now apartments
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Location	35 Quarry Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08542
Coordinates	40°21′11.3″N 74°39′46.6″W / 40.353139°N 74.662944°W / 40.353139; -74.662944Coordinates: 40°21′11.3″N 74°39′46.6″W / 40.353139°N 74.662944°W / 40.353139; -74.662944
Area	0.75 acres (0.30 ha)
Built	1858 (184 Witherspoon) 1909 (35 Quarry Street)
NRHP reference No.	05000125
NJRHP No.	4390[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 9, 2005
Designated NJRHP	January 6, 2005

The Witherspoon Street School for Colored Children educated the African-American children of Princeton, New Jersey from 1858 until the Princeton Public Schools were integrated in 1948. The school was originally located at the building still standing at 184 Witherspoon Street. As enrollment increased it moved, in 1909, to 35 Quarry Street, the building which bears the National Register of Historic Places designation. The Quarry Street building was expanded in 1939 and again in 1966, giving it its present appearance. The former school has since been turned into an apartment building.^[2]

In 1948 the Journal of Negro Education wrote that the Witherspoon Street School had empty spaces while the school for white children was overcrowded.^[3]

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  The 1908 champion YMCA team on the steps of the Witherspoon Street School

See also[]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey

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