Sweet Home Vocational and Agricultural High School
10 mi. S of Seguin on Sweet Home Rd., Seguin, TXSweet Home Vocational and Agricultural School are one of 464 schools built in Texas and one of over 5000 built throughout the South and the District of Columbia with aid from the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The Rosenwald Fund was established in 1917 to advance African American education through the erection of modern schoolhouses. Sweet Home is also one of two Rosenwald buildings that remain in Guadalupe County. During the school's active years, it served a tri-county area as a "County Training School" that emphasized a vocational and agricultural type curriculum for rural blacks. The school is one of few throughout Texas and the South that had a teacher's home built using the Rosenwald standardized plans. The school fits in the context of "Historic and Architectural Resources Associated with the Rosenwald School Building Program" and is nominated in the areas of Education and Ethnic Heritage-African American at a local level of significance.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.