Polytechnic High School – Fort Worth TX

City:
Fort Worth, TX

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Designer:
Joseph R. Pelich

Description

Polytechnic High School was built in 1936-37 by the PWA. The architect was Joseph R. Pelich and the cost was $483,000. The WPA landscaped the original 18.5 acre campus.

The school’s mascot is the Fighting Parrots–there’s a parrot on the
weathervane!

Source notes

https://schools.fwisd.org/polytechnic/Pages/OurHistory.aspx

Site originally submitted by Susan Kline on May 5, 2013.

Location Info

1300 Conner Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76105

Coordinates: 32.733122, -97.28856

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