- City:
- Columbia, LA
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- J. W. Smith and Associates
- Contractor:
- Nile Yearwood
- Marked:
- Yes
Description
This parish courthouse was undertaken during the Great Depression with the assistance of funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The two story jail courthouse, “…modern structure to be constructed of concrete, brick, and hollow tile, with stone trimmings” (1937, p. 10) was completed in 1937.
Source notes
Leighninger, R. (February 1, 2011). Public Works Administration Architecture. In David Johnson (Ed.) KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010. Retrieved from https://knowla.org/entry/495/ Leighninger, R. D. (2007). Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. The University Press of Mississippi. "New building contract let: Caldwell Parish courthouse to be erected by Tennessee firm. (April 16, 1937). Monroe News Star, p. 10.Site originally submitted by Susan C. Allen on December 3, 2014.
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