Victoria Colored School
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Officially named F. W. Gross High School on January 2, 1936, the Victoria Colored School, in Victoria County, Texas, United States, was built in 1901 under authorization of the newly elected school board. The Victoria Independent School District, formed in 1898, chose a design by architect Jules Leffland for the district's second high school, a segregated school for the "coloreds". The Colored School was built at 702 E. Convent Street, in the Diamond Hill area of Victoria, which had been settled by freedmen after the Civil War. The building was next door to the Freedmen's School (built in 1868 by the Freedmen's Bureau of Goliad County), which was turned into a dormitory for teachers of The Colored School.[2]
Victoria Colored School | |
Location | 702 E. Convent, Victoria, Texas |
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Coordinates | 28°47′37″N 97°0′3″W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1901 (1901) |
Built by | Bailey Mills |
Architect | Jules Leffland |
MPS | Victoria MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 86002582[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 9, 1986 |