Lampasas Colored School was the site of a schoolhouse for African American students in 1898, and in 1922 citizens approved a $40,000 bond to remodel the grammar school and high school for white students and build a new school for black students. The new building was constructed in April-May 1923 in front of the existing frame building, which was then torn down, and J.R.S. Hollowell was principal at the time. In 1927, overcrowding led the school board to split the school day between younger and older children, each group using the building for four hours per day. School activities included the Colored Parent Teacher Association in 1941, the Dramatic Arts Club and Community Youth Choir in 1950, and boys' and girls' basketball in 1951. Improvements in 1948 added a covered stone entry on the east façade, later removed, and a southern extension for a new stage area. For many years, African American children in Lampasas were taught only ten grades and had to attend schools in larger cities to complete high school, but in 1951 the school board allowed the school to teach 12 grades. The school closed in 1963, and beginning with the 1963-64 school year all Lampasas students attended school together. The rectangular-plan limestone schoolhouse, with its low gable roof, coursed rubble walls, stringcourse, copestone, quoins, and decorative niches, remained after the school district deeded it to Lampasas County in 1964 for storage, and in 2001 concerned citizens raised money to preserve and reuse it when it was threatened with demolition.