Douglas School

{{distinguish|Douglass School (disambiguation){{!}}Douglass School}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Douglas School

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = September 15, 1999{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=19 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archive-date=21 September 2013|url-status=dead}}

| designated_other1_number = 138-5002

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Douglas School, Winchester, Virginia.JPG

| caption = Douglas School, April 2012

| location = 598 N. Kent St., Winchester, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|39.1925|-78.1582|region:US-VA_type:edu|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1927}}

| architect = Long, R.V.; Gardner & Newcome

| architecture = Classical Revival

| added = May 26, 2000

| area = {{convert|9.5|acre}}

| refnum = 00000558{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Douglas School, also known as the Douglas Community Learning Center, is a historic school for African-American students located at Winchester, Virginia. It is a central auditorium plan school built in 1927, with funds from the John Handley Endowment. It is a one-story, dark red brick building with a four columned, Classical Revival style entry. Additions to

the building were made in 1940, 1951, and 1962. The school served as the only African-American school in the city until 1966, when it was closed after integration of the Winchester schools.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Winchester/138-5002_Douglas_School_2000_Final_Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Douglas School |author=Scott Brooks-Miller and Joanna J. Evans |date=n.d. |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources }} and [https://web.archive.org/web/20070804064659/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Winchester/Douglas_School_photo.htm Accompanying photo]

Built in 1927 as a "separate but equal" school for African American students but converted to a community center in 1966 after desegregation; may have been named for Frederick Douglass, despite the spelling difference.{{cite news|last=Sieff|first=Kevin|title=Alumni, NAACP in Winchester, Va., fighting over spelling of Douglas School's name|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/12/AR2010121203510.html|accessdate=20 May 2012|newspaper=Washington Post|date=12 December 2010}}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.