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Terry planned a bond issue vote in the amount of $25,000 to supplement a $40,000 allotment from the Works Progress Administration to construct new school buildings. The new buildings were needed as a result of the Rural Settlement Administration project… read more
Date added: September 5, 2022
Work was begun on the vocational building for the Jones County Agricultural High School and Junior College campus in February 1936. The building was a one story, 124 x 155 feet building constructed of concrete, glass, steel and wood, costing… read more
Date added: September 13, 2016; Modified: June 21, 2022
The Georgian Revival style elementary school completed September 9, 1939 was described that year as a “school of tomorrow” by the Democrat-Times. The interior was primarily Art Deco and Streamlined Moderne (MDAH) to reflect modern ideas of teaching. Funded by… read more
Date added: May 24, 2022; Modified: May 24, 2022
Public Works Administration project 4592 was approved 2/21/1934 for a $22,500 loan and $7,719 grant for additions to the Moorhead consolidated school. Construction started 6/8/1934 and was completed 10/10/1934. The project included the construction of a six-room addition and other… read more
Date added: November 9, 2019; Modified: May 18, 2022
The National Youth Administration built the Beulah-Hubbard Consolidated School’s vocational/home economics building in 1938. Although some buildings and ruins remain of the complex, it is unknown if the vocational building is one of them.
Date added: September 24, 2020; Modified: May 16, 2022
NYA boys on the Pearl River Junior College campus erected a vocational building, while the girls worked in home economics. Hancock Hall was completed 1938 by the National Youth Administration. The architect was Robert William Naef. The building was destroyed… read more
Date added: December 31, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
The historic post office building in Poplarville, Mississippi was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. Completed in 1941, it is still in use today. “This building has an unusual plan and appearance for a post office… read more
Date added: October 30, 2018; Modified: May 16, 2022
The National Youth Administration built the vocational building for the Pearl River County Training School in 1941. The building was one part of a complex of buildings constructed for African American students between 1900 and 1951.
Date added: May 27, 2013; Modified: May 16, 2022
Kennon Observatory, one of 39 buildings constructed by the PWA on the campus during the years 1936-1941, was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 2011. “Kennon Observatory was constructed in 1939, and once again, R. W. Naef was the architect. Naef… read more
Date added: February 7, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
PWA Docket No. Miss. 1245-F approved construction of a school building in the city of Oxford to house Oxford’s “Negro Elementary and High School.” The building is no longer extant.
Date added: December 31, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
The historic post office building in Lexington, Mississippi was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. The one-story, flat-roofed building remains in use as the post office today.
Date added: February 16, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
S. Douglass Crockwell painted “Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek” in 1944 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Crockwell, a commercial artist, “…departed from type and explored dark and emotive styling to depict a critical event… read more
Date added: February 16, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
This 1941 post office, constructed by the Treasury Department is described by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History as being in an “…odd, watered-down variation of the Colonial Revival style. Contains a mural by Douglas Crockwell, completed and installed… read more
Date added: November 23, 2019; Modified: May 16, 2022
$4,600 project was allotted for Vicksburg Charities hospital for main building and nurses’ home renovations in 1934. The building that began as the city hospital in the 1840s because a state institution around 1871, operated from a former plantation mansion…. read more
Date added: January 13, 2019; Modified: May 16, 2022
The Civil Works Administration approved and funded a number of projects in Mississippi in late 1933, primarily school buildings. Approval for construction of a new school building in Cross Roads was authorized and construction was underway in September. By December… read more