Guinn, James E., School - Fort Worth, TX
N 32° 43.961 W 097° 19.276
14S E 657301 N 3622899
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, the James E. Guinn School is today a business complex at 1120 S Freeway, Fort Worth, TX
Waymark Code: WMQ80T
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2016
Views: 3
There is an exceptionally well-detailed narrative at Secondary Website 1, while a 1986 Texas Historical Marker provides some background about Mr. Guinn and this school:
After Fort Worth public schools were organized in the fall of 1882, black students continued to be taught in black churches for more than a year. The city completed a schoolhouse for blacks on East Ninth Street at Elm in December 1883.
The son of a former slave, James Elvis Guinn was born in Fort Worth. Though neither of them could read nor write, his parents placed a great value on education, and James attended Fort Worth's early schools for blacks. He later pursued a college degree and became a professor of chemistry at Prairie View College, now Prairie View A&M University.
Guinn returned to Fort Worth as principal of South Side Colored School in 1900. Construction of a new three-story brick school building, designed by the prominent architectural firm of Sanguinet and Staats, began at the corner of Louisiana and Rosedale Avenues in April 1917. Shortly before its completion, Guinn died on July 11, 1917. Six days later the school board voted to name the new school building James E. Guinn School in his honor. It was the largest black school in Fort Worth in 1930. After sixty-three years of service, it was closed in 1980.
Street address: 1120 South Freeway Fort Worth, TX USA
County / Borough / Parish: Tarrant
Year listed: 1998
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1950-1974, 1925-1949
Historic function: Education
Current function: Commerce/Trade
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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