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Kiblah School

Coordinates: 33°3′12″N 93°52′1″W / 33.05333°N 93.86694°W / 33.05333; -93.86694
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Kiblah School
Kiblah School is located in Arkansas
Kiblah School
Location in Arkansas
Kiblah School is located in the United States
Kiblah School
Location in United States
Nearest cityDoddridge, Arkansas
Coordinates33°3′12″N 93°52′1″W / 33.05333°N 93.86694°W / 33.05333; -93.86694
Arealess than one acre
Built1927 (1927)
ArchitectRosenwald
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.88003210[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 20, 1989

The Kiblah School is a historic school building in rural Miller County, Arkansas. It is located southeast of Doddridge, at the junction of County Roads 4 and 192, between United States Route 71 and the Red River. The building is a single-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, topped by a gable-on-hip roof. It has modest Craftsman styling, with some Greek Revival influences. The main entrance is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch supported by Craftsman-style columns. It has a transom window reminiscent of Greek Revival doorways. The school was built in 1927 with funding from the Rosenwald Fund (although it was not built to a standard Rosenwald plan), and was intended to serve the African-American community of Kiblah, which was established after the American Civil War by former slaves from a Louisiana plantation.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Kiblah School". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-13.