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Photograph of Banneker School
Photograph by Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Banneker School

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Banneker School is a historic building and former public school active from 1940 to 2005, at 2840 Samuel Shepard Drive in the Midtown neighborhood in St. For most of its time it served as a Black school, and it housed the Banneker District Headquarters.”

Wikipedia article Banneker School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1940.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2840 Samuel Shepard Dr., St. Louis (Independent City), 63103
  • When was it listed? October 2017
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1940
  • National Register reference number. 100001761 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Banneker School in 2006, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2

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
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Banneker School: 87 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. 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
(Facility) Sauget Zinc RefineryZinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1Clay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Delore Barite MillBarium-BariteProducer
Hypothetical Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProspectUnderground
Krummel and Buchner MineCoal, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Madison PlantThoriumProducer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral PigmentsIronProducer
St Louis Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Parker-Russell Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory), CoalPast Producer
Tole and Thorp Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory), CoalPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

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
Autocar Sales and Service Buildingunder 500 feet2006
Castle Ballroomunder 500 feet2011
Locust Street Automotive District, Boundary Increase II0.1 miles2016
Unitarian Church of the Messiah0.2 miles1980
Beaumont Telephone Exchange Building0.2 miles2006
Father Dunne's News Boys' Home and Protectorate0.2 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001761 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 663 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.