I recently took a trip to Memphis. Like most trips, I planned a circuitous route using back roads. While plotting my path on Google Maps, I noticed a building identified as the LaGrange Rosenwald School. I immediately put it as a stopping point to photograph.

When I arrived in La Grange, I immediately doubted the providence of this building as a Rosenwald. There are no hallmark windows to bring light into the building, and I wondered if it was a heavily modified building. After doing some research, I could not find any confirmation that this building is a Rosenwald. It was a one-room school named the La Grange School.

Middle Tennessee State University assessed historic Black properties in Fayette County and created an informative storyboard titled “Fayette County: Places, Perspectives: African American Community-building in Tennessee, 1860-1920.” Since they did not include it in the comprehensive report, I believe it was not a Rosenwald school.

(I did update Google Maps to edit the name without Rosenwald.)