Search Results for: demolished

  • Delmar School (demolished) – Delmar DE

    The PWA completed this addition to the Delmar School in 1939. The school was reportedly demolished and rebuilt in 2000.

  • Comanche Trail Park Pool (demolished) – Big Spring TX

    The PWA built this pool outside Big Spring near the town’s eponymous spring. Between 2008 and 2011 the pool was demolished and redeveloped as a more modern water park. Based on satellite imagery from Google Earth, no visible traces remain,… read more

  • Maricopa County Welfare Sanitarium (Demolished) – Tempe AZ

    The Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration built the Arizona State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Tempe, Maricopa County, in 1934. Also known as the Maricopa County Welfare Sanitarium, the facility was initially built as a 60-room sanatorium. The… read more

  • Central School (demolished) Improvements – Rock Hill SC

    The federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) contributed to the development of Rock Hill’s original North Side School. “School buildings and classroom additions went up at Central School, Northside School, Arcade-Victoria School, and Ebenezer Avenue School, with A. D. Gilchrist the… read more

  • Arcade-Victoria School (demolished) – Rock Hill SC

    The federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) contributed to the development of Rock Hill’s Arcade-Victoria School. “School buildings and classroom additions went up at Central School, Northside School, Arcade-Victoria School, and Ebenezer Avenue School, with A. D. Gilchrist the architect for… read more

  • Northside School (demolished) Gym – Rock Hill SC

    “The Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration funded the construction of a stadium dedicated at Northside School in September 1934.” The former Northside School and the gym have since been demolished.

  • Northside School (demolished) Improvements – Rock Hill SC

    The federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) contributed to the development of Rock Hill’s original North Side School. “School buildings and classroom additions went up at Central School, Northside School, Arcade-Victoria School, and Ebenezer Avenue School, with A. D. Gilchrist the… read more

  • Emmett Scott High School (demolished) Improvements – Rock Hill SC

    “The federal government’s New Deal programs, specifically the Works Progress Administration and the Public Works Administration, also played a direct role in Rock Hill’s economic recovery. … PWA funds coupled with local bond money, improved several Rock Hill schools. A… read more

  • Pinedale School (demolished) – Pinedale WY

    “Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs helped the community… Additional aid came when the Works Progress Administration provided funds that … supplied the labor for a new brick schoolhouse.” Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) documents show that the school was… read more

  • Sullivan Hall (LHU; demolished) – Lock Haven PA

    Lock Haven University’s former Sullivan Hall was one of several facilities constructed during the late 1930s with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The building was demolished in 2015.