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Douglass School

Image: Photo: Randolph Hollingsworth, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Douglass School

by John T. Gillig

465 Price Rd, Lexington, KY

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School for Black students in Fayette County from 1929 to 1971, named for Frederick Douglass and built with Rosenwald Fund help. In 1931 it became Kentucky's first all-Black county school with a Class A rating. The 1947 high school building here was designed by John T. Gillig.

Douglass School

465 Price Rd, Lexington, KY

Lexington

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Year Built: 1947
Architect: John T. Gillig
Period: Roaring Twenties
Era: 1929

National Register of Historic Places. Reference: 98000933

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