Former Billinghurst School Rock Wall
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA)
Quality of Information: Minimal
Status: Unmarked
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
Billinghurst Junior High school named after long time Reno superintendent of schools (1908-1935), Benson Dillon Billinghurst had improvements made during the New Deal Era consisting of two new double tennis courts and a rock and cement retaining wall around the school playing fields. The rock walls are there today, but the tennis courts are now basketball courts. The school is no longer there. The site has become part of a large public park in the middle of Reno.
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Former Billinghurst School Rock Wall
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Former Billinghurst School Courts
Source notes
Men at Work" federal-City of Reno Relief Program, by John A Cooper Mayor of Reno 1935-1939
Project originally submitted by David Kerr on February 28, 2016.
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