Garnet High School, a heavy Collegiate Gothic brick building on Dickinson Street downtown, was for the first half of the twentieth century the principal high school for Black students in West Virginia. It produced an outsized roll of distinguished alumni and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
The building is still in use as a career and adult-education centre and is not normally open to casual visitors, but a small interpretive plaque outside summarises the school's history. Worth a few minutes on a walking circuit of the East End.