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Freetown Rosenwald School
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Freetown Rosenwald School, December 2009
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| Location: | 7825 Freetown Rd., Glen Burnie, Maryland |
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| Area: | 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) |
| Built: | 1924 |
| Architectural style: | Rosenwald Two Room Shop-B |
| Governing body: | Private |
| MPS: | Rosenwald Schools of Anne Arundel County, Maryland MPS |
| NRHP Reference#: | 07000943[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 12, 2007 |
Freetown Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school building in the historic African American community of Freetown at Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a simple, one-story, gable-roofed, rectangular frame building. The exterior walls are sheathed in aluminum siding and the gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles and displays minimal overhang. It was built in 1924-25, by the school construction program of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, to serve the loca African American community. It is one of ten Rosenwald Schools surviving in Anne Arundel County.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
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