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10 <br /> NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.1024-0018 <br /> (8-86) <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number 7 Page 4 Ridge Road School <br /> Orange County, NC <br /> Well House, late-twentieth century, noncontributing structure <br /> An asphalt-shingled pyramidal hip roof tops the approximately two-foot-tall brick walls of the small well <br /> house northwest of the school. The well house provided water for the no-longer-extant home of Reverend <br /> Walter Warren Jones and Emma Torian Jones to the west. <br /> Integrity Statement <br /> Ridge Road School retains integrity of location, setting, feeling, and association as it occupies its original <br /> site and maintains its historic relationship with Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church and the <br /> surrounding community. The one-story, side-gable-roofed, two-classroom building also possesses <br /> integrity of design, materials, and workmanship due to the retention of character-defining features of <br /> early-twentieth-century school architecture including building form, finishes, plan, and circulation pattern. <br /> Original elements such as German siding, a 5V-crimp metal-panel roof, single-leaf five-horizontal-panel <br /> doors,painted-beadboard-sheathed walls and ceilings, narrow-board wood floors, flat-board window and <br /> door surrounds, the beadboard panel that slides up into the central partition wall cavity, and the stage are <br /> in good condition. The shed rooms retain original double-hung four-over-four sash wood windows. <br /> Although the groups of tall multi-pane wood sash classroom windows on the west elevation are smaller <br /> than the original sash, original opening size is apparent. The north and south elevations remain blind as <br /> designed. A section of the faux-wood 1970s paneling that covers the north classroom walls has been <br /> removed to reveal original painted beadboard sheathing. <br /> Archaeological Potential Statement <br /> Ridge Road School is closely related to the surrounding environment. Archaeological remains such as <br /> trash pits,privies, wells, and other structural remains which may be present can provide information <br /> valuable to the understanding and interpretation of the contributing structures. Information concerning <br /> land-use patterns, the structural evolution of African American school buildings, social standing and <br /> social mobility, as well as structural details, is often only evident in the archaeological record. Therefore, <br /> archaeological remains may well be an important component of the property's significance. At this time <br /> no investigation has been done to discover these remains, but it is likely that they exist, and this should be <br /> considered in any development of the property. <br />