BANNEKER SCHOOL
8th and West Street, Parkville, MO 64152. 816.781.2000
Restoration Update
Banneker School was one of the first black schools in Missouri. A simple one-room structure, it has connections to Parkville, Park University, the descendants of its earliest students, and serves as an example of a time long past.
The Banneker School Foundation and Historic Site in Parkville, Missouri was formed in 2008. Its goal is ‘to restore the building to its original condition, in as much as it is practical to do so. It is the intent to keep the school at its original location and convert it to a living history museum where learners receive the opportunity for interactive cultural awareness, history, and understanding of the value of diversity.’
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VISION The historic one-room Banneker School shall be restored to be a living history museum reflecting the conditions of segregation and the influence of African American education in the late 19th Century. |
Site is maintined by faculty and history majors in the Program of History at Park University.
RFQ - Consultant to Prepare Capital Campaign
Interpretive Plan
The Banneker School Foundation and Historic Site in
Parkville, Missouri is seeking qualifications from Consultants
with experience preparing a Capital Campaign Interpretive
Plan for the restoration of a building listed on the National
Register of Historic Places, a one-room school where
African-American children were educated from 1885-1910.
Responses to the RFQ are due September 9, 2010. For a
copy of the RFQ, please click above.
