- City:
- Houston, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designers:
- Birdsall P. Briscoe, M. J. Sullivan, Sam H. Dixon Jr.
- Contractor:
- Southwestern Construction
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
https://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/TX01001591/Centricity/Domain/17638/History.pdf (accessed Mar. 2018)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 31, 2018.
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