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Photograph of Old Dillard High School
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dillard High School, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.

From the record

“The Old Dillard High School, also known as the Colored School or Walker Elementary, is a historic school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is located at 1001 Northwest 4th Street.”

Wikipedia article Old Dillard High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Broward County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1001 NW. Fourth St., Ft. Lauderdale, 33311
  • When was it listed? February 1991
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Lauderdale
  • Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 91000107 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1945 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dillard High School, Old, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Dillard High School, Old, surveyed 1945

Fires near this property

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dillard High School, Old in 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDUMP ( 06)

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Dillard High School, Old: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pegram MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Powerline PitSilicaPast Producer
State Road QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown
Bates ProjectStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Decker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Deem PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ferncrest QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gateway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
West Side Grade School, Old0.4 miles2012
New River Inn0.6 miles1972
Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club0.8 miles2019
Bryan Building0.8 miles1997
North Woodlawn Cemetery1.0 miles2017
Stranahan House1.2 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000107 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broward CountyAll 39 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.