St. Benedict the Moor Catholic School, Sanford Street, Lincolnville, St. Augustine, FL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
St. Benedict the Moor Catholic School, Sanford Street, Lincolnville, St. Augustine, FL / w_lemay
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Built in 1898 to serve African-American students in Lincolnville, this school was built as part of the St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Mission, which was created in 1871 during reconstruction in order to serve the recently freed African-American population of St. Augustine, whom settled in the surrounding neighborhood in large numbers. The Queen Anne-style brick masonry structure was funded by a donation from Katharine Drexel, a nun of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and a member of the prominent Drexel banking family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1916, three white nuns teaching at the school were arrested and put on trial for supposedly violating a law passed in 1913 that banned white teachers from working at black schools, which was found during the subsequent trial to not apply to private schools. In the 1960s, the mission was the site of Civil Rights activities, which contributed to the closure of the school in 1968, following the success of the Civil Rights Movement. The building has sat vacant ever since, in an increasingly deteriorated and dilapidated condition. Despite being designated as a contributing building to the Lincolnville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, the building has continued to deteriorate, with the roof removed and scaffolding added circa 2006 during an ill-fated restoration project that, 15 years on, has gone nowhere. The building continues to deteriorate and stands as a grim reminder of the lesser importance often given to preserving historic sites that are not associated with wealthy or white individuals in both St. Augustine and the wider United States. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-12-31 11:23:03 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | St. Augustine, Florida, United States 地図 |