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Among the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects identified as completed in a Abilene Daily Reporter article from June 14, 1936 was the following: "Improvements and repairs have been completed on a Carbon school building and grounds at a cost of $3560." The location and status of this facility is unknown to Living New Deal.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1933-4.

A school improvement project in Deaver, Wyoming was undertaken as a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. The school(s) in question is unknown to Living New Deal. PWA Docket No. WY 1082

The Works Progress Administration conducted improvement work at one or more school facilities in Dudley, Missouri. The work employed 15 men for two months.

Among a set of 26 WPA projects approved for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in Sept. 1935 was "improvements and repairs at Josephine and Chicora streets school building" in East McKeesport, PA. The Federal government allocated $4,600 for the project and local sponsors contributed $2,557. The precise location and present status of this project is unknown; Josephine St. and Chicora St. in East McKeesport do not intersect.

A large allocation of WPA funds for school construction and improvement projects for the state of Montana was issued in late 1938. The allocation included funding for school building improvements in Fairview, Montana. The location and current status of the structure in question is unknown to Living New Deal. The allocation for the structure appears on Montana WPA Roll 25 under project number 665-91-2-45.

Unspecified school improvements were approved by WPA for the Farmhaven community school in 1936.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Fossil, Wyoming.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed school improvement work in Gordon, Nebraska. The location and status of the facility in question is unknown to Living New Deal.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Greybull, Wyoming.

Labor funded by the federal Civil Works Administration worked to paint and redecorate one or more educational facilities in Hamburg, New York between 1933 and 1934.

A school improvement project in Hart, Texas was undertaken in 1936 with Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The P.W.A. provided a $20,454 grant for the project, whose total cost was $46,939. P.W.A. Docket No. TX 1682

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Hilliard, Wyoming. Cassity: "In Uinta County the schoolhouse at Hilliard asked for, and received, the digging of a water well. It turns out that the well, twenty-three feet deep and four feet in diameter, was needed sorely, the “water for school children being hauled 3 ½ miles by school wagon.”"

The school superintendant said that in 1939: "During the past year a considerable amount of repair work has been done. In addition to the work done at Town expense, the N. Y A. has done painting and varnishing at the High School building. A summary of the more important improvements is as follows: All windows not provided with storm sash, also outside door at the High School, fitted with all metal weatherstrip, guaranteed for the life of the building; completion of inside paint and varnish job throughout High School; fence around Village school lot, and a considerable amount of grading on the...

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Jackson, Wyoming.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Jireh, Wyoming, "a small Christian college town located on the prairie between Manville and Keeline, Wyoming on Highway 20," in 1933/4. The town was already declining and no longer exists; nor are there any buildings left from Jireh.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed school improvement work in Lakeside, Nebraska. The location and status of the facility in question is unknown to Living New Deal.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted a project to improve the building and grounds of the school in Lynch, Nebraska, completed Jan. 1934. Norfolk Daily News, Jan. 10, 1934: "The interior of the school building has been repainted, revarnished and redecorated. The hill behind the building has been removed so that the school grounds will look nicer and can be landscaped. A deep trench has been dug around the grounds to lay open all winter and catch moisture. In the spring it is to be planted to shrubbery and trees."

Works Progress Administration (WPA) employees dug a 1001 foot well for the Macedonia school when the former drinking supply was condemned by the health department.

The schools of Mansfield, Massachusetts received assistance throughout the New Deal. Early New Deal-sponsored improvements came from the Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, saving the town's taxpayers money. The town's 1933 Annual Report states: "Late in November, the Civil Works Administration approved a request of the School Department for $1,558.20 for the employing of seven local men in a program of repairs to school buildings and equipment. ... Besides numerous small jobs of repair work ... several larger projects are planned. These are, a new chimney at the Main Street School; a new floor in a basement room...

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Manville, Wyoming. Cassity: "At Manville, the application for CWA funding noted how the school was run down, and desperately needed repairs, but “due to the financial condition of the district, it was impossible to do the work.”"

An August 25, 1939 article in the Bartlett Tribune and News reported on the latest round of PWA funding: "The first project to get under construction in was at Monument, Colorado, on August 3, 1939. The project, calling for $1,300 worth of school improvements, was one of the nation's smallest and also the first of PWA projects to be completed in the United States."

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 repairs. Three rooms were constructed on the east side and three on the west side of the existing building. The school opened in September 1934 following the completion of the new building, one of the first of new school buildings in Mississippi to be built under PWA. The school is no longer extant.

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 repairs. Three rooms were constructed on the east side and three on the west side of the existing building. The school opened in September 1934 following the completion of the new building, one of the first of new school buildings in Mississippi to be built under PWA.

Per the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) supplied labor toward the following project in Nenana, Alaska in 1934: "The School House at Nenana has just enjoyed a spring cleaning, the interior of the building has been given a fresh coat of kalsomine and paint. Funds from the C.W.A. enabling the work to be done." Old Alma Mater got a coat of calsomine during the past weekend. The school board and the Principal had been trying for some time to get CWA funds with which to repair, paint and calsomine the schoolhouse. Their efforts were finally rewarded, in part...

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Opal, Wyoming.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Otto, Wyoming.

The WPA allocated $520 for "school improvements" in Paradise, Montana in August 1938. The exact location of this structure and its present status are unknown to Living New Deal.

A large allocation of WPA funds for school construction and improvement projects for the state of Montana was issued in late 1938. The allocation included funding for school building improvements in Philipsburg, Montana. The location and current status of the structure in question is unknown to Living New Deal. The allocation for the structure appears on Montana WPA Roll 25 under project number 665-91-2-53.

Project 5092 to install a heating system for the Pickens school was completed in 1934. The Pickens school, originally constructed 1916, was a 2-story building destroyed in 2003. PWA provided a grant of $307 for the heating system. It was approved 6/20/1934, construction initiated 9/18/1934, and completed 9/27/1934 for a total cost of $1121.

A large allocation of WPA funds for school construction and improvement projects for the state of Montana was issued in late 1938. The allocation included funding for school building improvements in Red Lodge, Montana. It is likely that the building in question makes up part of what is presently known as Roosevelt Junior High School. The allocation for the structure appears on Montana WPA Roll 25 under project number 665-91-2-49.

The Works Progress Administration conducted improvement work at the Rising Star School in Rising Star, Texas, in 1939. According to the Abilene Reporter-News, "Rising Star School Gets WPA Allotment RISING STAR, April 12.-- Announcement was received here today that $18,933 had been allotted by works progress administration to the Rising Star Independent school district. The allotment makes possible a project planned by school board members 18 months ago, the cost of which aggregates $25,000. Included In the project will be a new home economics building, a rock veneer for the gymnasium, a deep well for the school's, water supply, a rock fence for the...

Cassity: "Rock Springs School District #4, in a standard approach applied to many other schools, used the CWA to conduct general repairs and overhauls of the buildings, treat the roofs, upgrade the plumbing, paint walls and varnish woodwork, and repair the windows and doors of the schools. Washington and Yellowstone schools were singled out for special treatment, but it appears that most of the schools in the district, and in the county, were included in this rehabilitation and repair work."

The National Youth Administration completed improvements for the school building in Scott City, Kansas. Pictured is a postcard postmarked 1946, showing a sign in front of the building that reads "Kansas NYA Project."

A large allocation of WPA funds for school construction and improvement projects for the state of Montana was issued in late 1938. The allocation included funding for school building improvements in Three Forks, Montana. The location and current status of the structure in question is unknown to Living New Deal. The allocation for the structure appears on Montana WPA Roll 25 under project number 665-91-2-66.

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Upton, Wyoming. "At Upton the CWA built equipment for the science laboratory, and perhaps even more noticeably, installed plumbing at the high school."

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted school improvement work in Hilliard, Wyoming. Cassity: "t Washam, in Sweetwater County, ... the CWA dug a short tunnel into the hillside to tap into a spring in the mountain to provide water for the school."

According to the Sweetwater Reporter the PWA approved "a grant of $6,545 and a loan of $8,000 for improvements to the Winters school system."

The Independent Reporter often covered the ongoing work of the New Deal at providing relief for the unemployed on work in Skowhegan. In 1933-1934, the CWA and then FERA carried out extensive improvements to the local junior and senior high schools, including grading the schools' grounds and other landscaping, building roads, constructing a new athletic field and re-painting and cleaning the school interiors. The High School moved onto the island in 1869. In 1919, a new High School was constructed across the river from the island and the Junior High moved into the old High School. In the 1980's a new...

Multiple New Deal agencies financed or conducted development or improvement work at what was then known as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy at El Paso (or "School of Mines"), now the University of Texas at El Paso. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided funding for the construction of two dorms on campus, while the Works Progress Administration constructed an addition to the chemistry building, graded "drives on campus," and built an "extension of the power plant at the College of Mines."