Lylburn Downing School


Lylburn Downing School is a historic school building for African-American children located at Lexington, Virginia. It was built in 1926–1927, and is a one-story, Classical Revival style brick building. It has a columned entry porch and pilasters that articulate its walls. A rear addition was constructed in 1939–1940, and a covered walkway in 1948–1949. The City of Lexington converted the original building into a community center in the late 1980s.
Lylburn Downing Middle School currently serves as a small, city school located in Lexington, Virginia in the southwest Virginia Appalachian Mountains. The school serves 189 students in grades 6 – 8, with ages ranging from 11 to 15 years old.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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