Iron Hill School
By: Amira Pope

WHAT WAS IT

• The iron Hill school was made in1923 in an area in Northern Delaware.
• This school was located at 1335 Old Baltimore Pike and served black students from 1923 to 1964. The building later became the Iron Hill Museum and was added to Delaware's Register of Historic Places in 1995.

BUILDING DESIGN

• It was designed by an architect named James Oscar Betelle and built in 1923.
• It is a1 1/2-story, rectangular frame, wooden building on a concrete foundation with a medium gable roof.
• The building measures 24 feet by 48 feet, and features a pedimented portico centered on the gable end in the Colonial Revival style.

SIGNIFICANCES

• This was one of 80 schools for African American childrem. It was funded by Pierre Samual Du Pont.y
• It was a one room school used until school segregation was abolished which happened in 1965

Even though these buildings are small they were the inspiration behind modern building design concepts.

3 African American women hang laundry outside of housing in Oak Riddge.
Ed Westcott, 1945

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