[2][3] The building design was a standard Rosenwald Fund plan for a two-teacher school with an industrial room.

It is a one-story building on a limestone block foundation with weatherboard siding and a shingled cross-gable roof.

It has decorative details inspired by Craftsman architecture, including wide-overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails.

[3] The Durham's Chapel community was formed by former African-American slaves in the early years after the Civil War.

White people in Sumner County supported the school's home economics training program for girls in order to qualify them for employment as domestic servants.