Perry School (Additional Documentation)
- On the Register
- since Jan 3, 2011
- Built
- 1949
- Significant for
- Architecture, Education, Black history, Social history
- Importance
- Local
- Type
- Building
- Where
- 2226 Laurel Mill-Centerville Road., Centerville, NC
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About
Perry School is a historic school complex located near Centerville, Franklin County, North Carolina. The complex consists of four buildings: a one-story Colonial Revival style frame school (1941); a one-story, gable-roofed detached concrete block rear wing (1949); a low-slung, U-shaped, one-story, brick high school (1952); and the roughly rectangular, gable-roofed brick gymtorium (1963). The complex also includes the baseball field and two sets of paired brick pillars erected by two graduating classes. The complex was built to serve the educational needs of the African-American population of Franklin County and is one of a few remaining Jim Crow-era schools in the county.
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Sources: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · National Archives catalog record 47720344 · Wikidata.