Millwood Colored School facts for kids

Millwood Colored School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Millwood Community Center, originally Millwood Colored School
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Location	1610 Millwood Rd., Boyce, Virginia
Area	0.7 acres (0.28 ha)
Built	1910 (1910)
NRHP reference No.	00001431
Quick facts for kids Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 22, 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.