Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center

The Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, also known as the Barrett Learning Center and originally as the Virginia Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls and then the Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls, was a residential industrial school and later a juvenile correctional facility operated by the state of Virginia near Mechanicsville, Virginia.[2]

Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls
Buildings in the complex
Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center is located in Virginia
Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center
Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center is located in the United States
Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center
Location11391 Barrett Center Rd., near Mechanicsville, Virginia
Coordinates37°42′39″N 77°21′42″W
Built1915 (1915)
ArchitectAdditions by Merrill C. Lee
NRHP reference No.15000926[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 7, 2016

The facility was founded in 1915 as a facility for African-American girls who otherwise faced prison.[3]

History

The property was donated by the Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.[2] The Women's Club worked to provide a nurturing environment to enable the girls to become "respectable, useful women".[4] The facility had the first African-American woman, Janie Porter Barrett, to head such an institution.

The facility was fully integrated by race in 1965, became coed in 1977, and then served an exclusively male population from 1978 until its closure in 2005. The campus has a collection of mid-20th century buildings designed by Richmond architect Merrill C. Lee,[5][6] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1] Records for the institution are in the Library of Virginia.[7]

Virginia Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "The Virginia Industrial Home School For Wayward Colored Girls Opens". African American Registry. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  3. "Dedication Ceremony for the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  4. Jones, Lindsey E. (30 May 2016). "Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls, Past & Present". AAIHS. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  5. "June 2015 Listings on the Virginia Landmark Register" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  6. "Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center". State of Virginia. Archived from the original on August 12, 2010. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  7. "A Guide to the Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls records, 1912-1947 (bulk 1912-1920)". Library of Virginia. Retrieved 2 June 2022.

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