- City:
- Hurley, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designers:
- Jr., Vinson B. Smith
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The 1937-38 ART Moderne administration building for Hurley School was Public Works Administration project 1247. The town received a loan for $16,500 and a grant for $13, 167, approved 8/12/1937. The contract was awarded 11/23/1937, construction started 12/15/1937 and completed 8/29/1938. the architect was Vinson B. Smith, Jr.
Source notes
Report No. 5, Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Region No. 3, Mississippi. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 106.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory, Hurley, Inventory: 059-HUR-4024-X, Historic Name: "Hurley School (White) complex." Retrieved July 2019 from (https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=school&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Hurley&County=Any).
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 10, 2019.
Site Details
| Federal Cost | Local Cost |
|---|---|
| $13,167.00 | $16,500.00 |
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