Austin High School 2014
Project type: Education and Health, Schools
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA)
Completed: 1937
Contractors: Southwestern Construction
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Description
The Stephen F. Austin Senior High School in southeast Houston, Texas was constructed as a New Deal project with the aid f Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The three-story building, featuring “44 classrooms, a large auditorium, a cafeteria, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a library, sewing, cooking and home economics rooms and administrative offices,” opened in 1937.
Source notes
http://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/TX01001591/Centricity/Domain/17638/History.pdf (accessed Mar. 2018)
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 31, 2018.
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