Plaisance - Rosenwald Schools of Louisiana

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Published 2024-04-16

Plaisance Rosenwald School is a 6-teacher style structure currently located in Plaisance, Louisiana. The school was originally built in 1921 to housed 160 students in grades one through eight, before expanding to include high school students in 1946. The building is still in use today as part of the Plaisance elementary school, a educational center, and general meeting center for the community. It is the only Rosenwald school in Louisiana, known to date, to remain in it currently location and is still used for education. Plaisance School is listed on the National Register of Historic Place on August 23, 2004. This is one of 17 remaining Rosenwald schools still existing in Louisiana. NCPTT scanned this building using a Leica Geosystem Laser Scanner to produce this video flythrough of the buildings point cloud digital model.

Between 1912 and 1932, Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, the owner of the Sears Company and a well-known philanthropist, invested in constructing schools for the African American communities in the rural south of the United States. As part of that investment, the Tuskegee institute in Alabama develop design plans that would allow construction of the buildings to meet the standards of education while also allowing communities to modify the designs to accommodate the materials available in their areas. These buildings became known as the “Rosenwald Schools.” Over 5,000 schools were established in the south, with at least 395 schools known to be constructed in the state of Louisiana. After the Louisiana school system was established in the 1970’s, many of the Rosenwald School buildings have been destroyed, relocated, repurposed, or lost.

Louisiana Trust of Historic Preservation (LTHP) began the Rosenwald Initiative to locate all the still existing Rosenwald structures in the State of Louisiana. As part of the initiative, the LTHP contacted the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) to assist with documenting the remaining buildings to help the communities preserve the remaining buildings and bring awareness to the project.
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This video is in collaboration with the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation.
Website - www.lthp.org/
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NCPTT's Links:
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