The Germantown School was a two room schoolhouse built for the African American children in 1923 with grant seed money provided by the Rosenwald Foundation. The Rosenwald Foundation was created by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, to improve the quality of education in Southern schools. The foundation provided for almost 5,000 schools in 15 states. Eleven schools were built in Worcester County, but the Germantown School is the only known Rosenwald school that has survived in its original state.
The school was closed by the Board of Education in 1953. The wood floors and the tall windows of the building were later removed by the County and replaced with a concrete floor slab and four large overhead garage doors to allow the County Roads Department to use the building for storage and a garage for their equipment in 1962.
Several of the former Germantown School students and members of the community convinced the County Commissioners in 2001 to give the building back to the community in order to restore the school to it's original design. Fundraising for the restoration has been an on-going task. The restoration of the school, which is now know as the Germantown School Community Heritage Center, began in June, 2010.
Design Resources is proud to be a part this project by conducting Progress Meetings during the restoration of the school. The Progress Meetings provide a communication forum between the Board of Directors and the General Contractor to help with problem solving and decision making keep the project moving toward completion.
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