This wood school building was constructed with plans and financial assistance from the Ro-senwald Foundation initiative to improve educational facilities for Black students throughout the South. Opened as a grammar school in 1924, this building served as the only area high school for African American students from 1935 to 1951. Many jurisdictions in Maryland, including Harford County, maintained racially segregated school systems well into the mid-twentieth century. Prior to 1935, local Black students wishing to progress in their education had to pass an entrance exam and go to school in Baltimore, which had the only high school for African Americans in the state. The original three-room plan (two small classrooms on one side and a larger one on the other) was altered into small offices for county workers in 1975.