I will be posting National Register of Historic Places Property Nominations from now through Black History Month (trying to get a full month in). These nominations are detailed descriptions of places of national, state, and cultural significance. The nomination below was composed by Karen Riles, formerly of the Austin History Center.

Why does the National Register Matter?

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

Also, here’s a National Register FAQ: http://www.nps.gov/nr/faq.htm

The purpose of posting these nominations is to help people understand the relevance of preservation to African American culture, history, and planning equity. I will also use the nominations to show the existence of certain planning and development principles African Americans applied in their own communities, over the past two centuries, such as sustainability, cooperative economics, regional planning, and permaculture.

 

Rosenwald Schools Getting Kids Moving

 

Sustainable/Green Building: Carver School, Lockhart, Photo By Gerald E. McLeod

The Lockhart Vocational High School or Carver High School, 1104 E. Market St. in Lockhart, was built in the 1920s of materials recycled from a white school. It served the community as a county training school, then an elementary school, and finally used for Head Start programs until it was abandoned in 1997.

Rosenwald Schools of Texas, National Register Nomination By Karen Riles (1998)