Carpenter Street School - Northeast African American Historic Places Map (sitios de interés)
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| 53 Carpenter Street | Woodbury, NJ 08096 | | ||
About: A rare antebellum survivor, the Old Carpenter Street School may be New Jersey's oldest existing schoolhouse built for African Americans. It is also the oldest surviving structure associated with the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Woodbury, a congregation founded in 1817. Built by Joseph Tatum in the vernacular Gothic Revival style in 1840 (with modifications in 1870 and 1930), the small frame building became a public school in 1881. Eight years later, a larger schoolhouse was built a block away, and the Old Carpenter Street school became a parish house.
 Carpenter Street SchoolPhotos and text courtesy New Jersey Historic Trust |
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