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ST. AUGUSTINE'S SCHOOL, RALEIGH, N. C.
Founded in 1867 by Rev. ]. BIinton Smitb, D.D. Located one mile east of the state capitol. Rev. A. B. Hunter. president since 1891. Four hundred and twenty-eight students
and 24 teachers in Igo8. Denominational support from tbe American Church Institute for Negroes, Protestant Episcopal. Each student required to have a Bible. Prayer-Book,
Hymnal, and Sunday-school Instruction Book. Benson Library and Taylor Hall on the left of tbe above picture. Lyman Hall, dormitory for boys, on tbe right. Approximate
annual expenses, $29,000.
St. Augustine"s School"
Raleigh" N. C.
Rev. A. B. Hunter, President
Two years after the Civil War, St. Augustine's School was
founded. It is under the protection of the Episcopal
Church. Part of its one hundred and ten acre i within
the city limits.
The effort of the school is to train teachers for the colored
race and to give preparatory training to young men who are looking
forward to the mini try of the Episcopal Church, and to
bring all it tudents under the influence of a Chri tian discipline.
Careful attention is given to industrial training,- cooking and
sewing for girl , carpentry and masonry for young men.
Each student pay a tated amount for board and tuition, and
in addition gives thirty-five hours of work each month; or, if
students are unable to pay, they enter school as industrial tudents,
each having certain work to do during the day and going
to school at night. All the housework, cooking, laundering, and
caring for the grounds is done by the student .
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The school started with two building , one of which was the
re idence of the principal, now u ed as a girls' building, having a
large addition with dormitorie , dining room, kitchen, cookin<T
chool, and recreation room .
veral of the chool building have been erected almo t entirely
by the tudents, a beautiful tone as embly hall and
library being the mo t prOIninent. The building on the
ground are valued at $100,000.
In connection with t. Augu. tine' chool is t. Agn ' Ho pital
and Training chool for ur. es, for which a new building
has just be n completed. The tone was quarried on the chool
ground and put into place by the young men of the chool, who
al 0 have done .the plastering. It co t about 30,000, and ha
accommodations for from fifty to eventy-fi\'e patient. It i
one of the large t ho pita\. exclu. ively for colored people in the
country. Dr. Hubert A. Royster. dean of the ~Icdical Department
of the niversity of North Carolina, i it· surgeon in chief.
His reputation brings many urgical cases to t. Agnes' Ho"pital.
Colored trained nurses are much in demand by the white people
of the South, and graduate have no trouble in obtaining employment
at good wage. The ho pital is largely charitable.
