Queenstown Rosenwald School
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Queenstown Rosenwald School, also known as Sunnyside School, is a historic Rosenwald school
Rosenwald School
A Rosenwald School was the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers' homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African-Americans in the early twentieth century. The need arose from the chronic underfunding of public education for...

 building located at Severn
Severn, Maryland
Severn is a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 35,076 at the 2000 census, which is a 30 percent increase over the 24,499 population of 1990...

 in Anne Arundel County
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, Maryland
Maryland
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, United States
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. It was built in 1932 and is a plain, one-story, frame building. The building contained two classrooms and a library. The school closed in 1966 and subsequently became the Queenstown Community Center.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2009.

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