Education--Finance; African American schools; Society of Friends--Education; High Point (N.C.); High Point Normal and Industrial Institute (High Point, N.C.)
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
8-Dec-13
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 72
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
William Penn High School, also known as High Point Normal & Industrial Institute, is a historic high school for African-American students located at High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The high school building was built in 1910-1911, and enla rged and renovated in 1929-1930. It is a two-story, 12 classroom Colonial Revival style brick building. It has a projecting three-bay entrance pavilion. Two other buildings associated with the High Point Normal & Industrial Institute are on the property. The Institute was established by Quakers in 1891. They were built about 1910 and are a gable end frame structure sheathed in corrugated metal with a distinctive monitor roof and a brick building with a low pitched roof. The school closed in 1968. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Notable alumni John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist and composer Gwendolyn Ann Magee, African American fiber artist" [SOURCE: "William Penn High School (North Carolina)." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn_High_School_(North_Carolina). Accessed 22 Aug. 2018.]