Little Rock Central High School, Park Street and Daisy L Gaton Bates Drive, Little Rock, AR : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Little Rock Central High School, Park Street and Daisy L Gaton Bates Drive, Little Rock, AR / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1927, this Gothic Revival-style building was designed by George R. Mann, Eugene Stern, John Almand, George Wittenberg, and Lawson Delony to serve as the Central High School for the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. The building features a buff brick exterior with stone trim, double-hung windows, a massing that tapers with setbacks towards the roofline of the central tower, which features decorative Gothic tracery and Romanesque elements, a projected front entrance bay above a large front terrace flanked by stairways, which features stucco cladding, decorative statues, and decorative reliefs, a loggia at the front face of the terrace with five arched openings that rest on decorative columns, a large auditorium/gymnaisum wing to the rear of the main entrance, classroom wings that project to the southeast and northeast of the main wing, enclosing a garden in front of the building with a reflecting pool, trees, a grassy lawn, concrete walkways, and ornamental plantings, a modern gymnasium addition to the north of the original gymnasium wing, and a stadium to the west of the building. The building is significant for being the site of the 1957-1958 Little Rock Desegregation Crisis, where the National Guard had to enforce court-mandated desegregation of the high school, with nine Black students from Dunbar High School being selected to attend the school for the 1957-1958 school year, leading to riots and demonstrations outside the school that got violent, as well as other racially-motivated violence and activism in the area. The school was successfully integrated with the assistance federally-deployed National Guard Troops, whom defended the Black students, despite the opposition of the white community in Little Rock, as well as the then-governor of Arkansas. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, and was made a National Historic Site in 1998. The building is also a contributing structure in the Central High School Neighborhood Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Today, the building remains in use as a public high school, with a museum located in the nearby visitor center that is dedicated to the interpretation of the events of the 1957-1958 Little Rock Desegregation Crisis. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-08-10 13:36:11 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Big Rock Township, Arkansas, United States 地図 |