Millwood Colored School
Millwood Colored School | |
Millwood Community Center, originally Millwood Colored School | |
| Location | 1610 Millwood Rd., Boyce, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°04′29″N 78°02′31″W / 39.0748°N 78.0419°W |
| Area | 0.7 acres (0.28 ha) |
| Built | 1910 |
| NRHP reference No. | 00001431 |
| VLR No. | 021-0192-0008 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 22, 2000 |
| Designated VLR | September 13, 2000 |
Millwood Colored School, now known as Millwood Community Center, is a historic school building for African-American children located at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It was built about 1910, and is a one-story, hip-roofed school has a two-room plan with coat closets, and a kitchen. The building measures approximately 60 feet long and 30 feet wide. It features a recessed entry, two entrance doors, overhanging eaves with scalloped exposed rafter ends, double-hung windows with wooden tracery, five-panel doors, and sits on a limestone foundation. It was used as an elementary school until 1952, then sold to the Millwood Good Will Association for use as a community center.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.