- City:
- Laurel, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1940
- Designer:
- N. W. Overstreet & A. H. Town
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
A Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in the amount of $22,000 was allotted to 2 Laurel schools in 1940. One project was to complete plastering and ceiling, drainage and landscaping of the Frank G. Wisner Activities building for Laurel High School. The building was a two-story Art Moderne designed by N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town completed 1939-1940.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory, Frank G. Wisner Student Activity Building. Retrieved July 15, 2020 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Laurel&County=Any
Laurel School Project Okehed. (Jan 29, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 3.
Four State WPA Jobs Approved. (Jan 31, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 2.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 16, 2020.
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