Switchback School facts for kids
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Switchback School
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Western side of the school
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 Location in Virginia
Location in the United States
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| Location | 210 Pinehurst Heights Rd., near Hot Springs, Virginia |
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| Area | 0.9 acres (0.36 ha) |
| Built | 1924-1925, 1933, c. 1960 |
| Architect | Rosenwald Fund |
| MPS | Rosenwald Schools in Virginia MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 13000985 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 24, 2013 |
Switchback School, also known as Union Hurst School, is a historic Rosenwald school located near Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia. It was built in 1924–1925, and is a one-story, frame, graded two-teacher type of public school. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a side-gable roof. A major addition at the south end was built in 1933 and a second addition was built about 1960. Also on the property are a contributing privy (c. 1950); a cistern constructed as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps site improvement project (late-1930s); and three stone walls built by the workers from the Works Progress Administration (late-1930s). It is one of approximately 70 Rosenwald schools that survive of the 364 that were built across Virginia for the education of African-American students.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
