Washington Grade and High School
Contributors:
Christopher Gadsden Sayre, architect
Dates:
1922-1923
Location:
Raleigh, Wake County
Street Address:
1000 Fayetteville St., Raleigh, NC
Status:
Standing
Type:
Educational
Images Published In:
Linda L. Harris and Mary Ann Lee, An Architectural and Historical Inventory of Raleigh, North Carolina (1978).
Note:
The project was cited as Sayre’s in the Manufacturers’ Record (June 19, 1922; July 5, 1923) and is well known as his design. Washington School was Raleigh’s first public high school for African Americans and remained the only such school until 1953. The building has been used continuously as a school since its opening and is remarkably intact.
