4 Results for tag "Williamsburg Bray School"

• Historic Tradespeople Restore the Bray School

  Our schools make us who we are. Hundreds of free and enslaved Black children received an education through the Williamsburg Bray School. Many spent thousands of hours at school. Understanding where these children learned and played can help us to better understand their stories.After the building that originally housed the …

• What Can Paint Analysis Tell Us About the Bray School?

  The discovery and examination of the Williamsburg Bray School has been an important and exciting project for William & Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CW), particularly CW’s Department of Architectural Preservation and Research, working in collaboration with the Department of Conservation.

• Williamsburg Bray School Project Update

  In 2022 the Department of Architectural Preservation and Research (DAPR) focused on investigating the Williamsburg Bray School building and began working with a contractor to remove the nineteenth and twentieth centuries additions. This painstaking deconstruction work was done to avoid any damage to the original eighteenth-century frame and surviving architectural …

• Williamsburg Bray School

  The Williamsburg Bray School is the oldest extant building dedicated to the education of Black children in the United States, located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Established in 1760 by the Associates of Dr. Bray, an Anglican charity based in England, the school’s faith-based curriculum justified slavery and encouraged those that who …