Built in 1924-25 as Claymont's white high school, this building became the site of the first legal integration of a public high school among the seventeen states that mandated school segregation. After attorney Louis L. Redding sued on behalf of eight Black students in 1951, Delaware Chancellor Collins Seitz ruled in April 1952 that segregated Black schools were unconstitutionally unequal, and Claymont admitted twelve Black students that September, ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision. The case, Belton v. Gebhart, became part of Brown v. Board of Education. The building now operates as the Claymont Community Center.