Harnett County Training School

{{short description|Historic buildings in North Carolina, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Harnett County Training School

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| image = Harnett County Training School.jpg

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| location= 610 E. Johnson St., Dunn, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|35|18|40|N|78|36|04|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| built = {{Start date|1922}}-1956

| architect =Boney, Leslie N.

| builder = Player Realty Construction Co.

| architecture = Colonial Revival, Modern Movement

| added = August 20, 2014

| area = {{convert|5.33|acre}}

| refnum = 14000521{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20140829.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-08-29|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 8/18/14 through 8/23/14|publisher=National Park Service}}

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Harnett County Training School, also known as Harnett High School, is a historic school complex for African-American students located at Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina. The complex was built between 1922 and 1956, and consists of one two-story and five single-story brick buildings. They include a gable front combined Gymnasium/Auditorium (1948); the two-story, 14 teacher, flat-roofed, Colonial Revival-style, Rosenwald-funded Harnett County Training School (1922); a detached brick boiler room (1950); two, one-story, flat-roofed Library and Office Building and Cafeteria buildings (1956); and a one-story, flat-roofed Rosenwald-funded classroom annex added in 1927, now designated the Education Building.{{Cite web | author = Ed Turberg| title =Harnett County Training School | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date=April 2014| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/HT0523.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2014-08-01}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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