Image: GLOUCESTER CO. NJ, CARPENTER STREET SCHOOL

Description: A rare antebellum survivor, the Old Carpenter Street School may be New Jersey's oldest existing schoolhouse built for African-Americans. It is also the oldest surviving structure associated with the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Woodbury, a congregation founded in 1817. Built by Joseph Tatum in the vernacular Gothic Revival style in 1840 (with modifications in 1870 and 1930), the small frame building became a public school in 1881. Eight years later, a larger schoolhouse was built a block away, and the Old Carpenter Street school became a parish house.
Title: GLOUCESTER CO. NJ, CARPENTER STREET SCHOOL
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