Community Events Venue

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The historic Rosenwald Building was built on the campus of Prentiss Institute in 1926 with funds from the Julius Rosenwald Rural School Building Program. The Prentiss Institute Board of Trustees completed restoration of the building in 2013. The Rosenwald Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been recognized as a historic landmark by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

“The Rosenwald Building, constructed in 1926 with the assistance of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, was built with some modifications using standard plan #6-A, which was distributed to Rosenwald schools and published in Community School Plans. These one-story, Hand T-shaped buildings, developed beginning in 1919 by the Rosenwald Fund in consultation with educator Fletcher B. Dresslar, incorporated new standards for natural lighting and ventilation and revolutionized rural school design. For the next three decades, these "alphabet plans" became the new standard for rural consolidated schools, which consolidated smaller one-room schools into larger centralized campuses that allowed the division of students by grades and expanded high school and vocational programs.” From US Dept of Interior National Register of Historic Places Registration Form