Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School
church building in Alabama, United States of America
The Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School is a historic Missionary Baptist Church and former Rosenwald School for African American students, located near 7794 Alabama State Route 81, Notasulga, Alabama in Macon County, Alabama. The property contains two buildings that are both associated with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
The buildings and adjacent cemetery were added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 20, 2006. They were subsequently added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 2010.
History
The church building was built in 1919 and is a gable-front frame building with a frame bell tower serving as a prominent landmark along the highway. The building has been sided in vinyl, c. 1990, but the interior of the building retains its c. 1916 appearance, complete with decorative painted graining on doors, pews, wainscoting, and other defining features of the building.
The Rosenwald School, built c. 1922 and remodeled c.
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