At the Bray School building, Matt Webster examines a piece of the framing from the first floor. January 18, 2022. Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary have identified this building (the Bray-Digges House), tucked away on the William & Mary campus, as the structure that once housed the Williamsburg Bray School, an 18th-century institution dedicated to the education of enslaved and free Black children (in operation from 1760 to 1774). Now the university and the Foundation are working together to ensure that current and future generations learn about the complex history of what is likely the oldest extant building in the United States dedicated to the education of Black children and the stories of those who were part of it. The new partnership calls for relocation of the Bray-Digges House to Colonial Williamsburgs Historic Area, where it will become the 89th original structure restored by the Foundation. It also establishes the Williamsburg Bray School Initiative, a joint venture of the university and Foundation to use the site as a focal point for research, scholarship and dialogue regarding the complicated story of race, religion and education in Williamsburg and in America.