Central School – Union Springs NY

City:
Union Springs, NY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1936

Completed:
1937

Description

The Central and High School in Union Springs, New York was constructed during the 1930s. The federal Public Works Administration contributed funds that enabled the project’s development. PWA Docket No. NY 1233 provided a grant of $146,250 to the school district for the building’s construction. The total cost of the project was $326,961.

Construction on the school began March 1936 and was finished November 1937. The building has since been added to.

Source notes

Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 25. National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 14: New York State; Folder 1: Schools.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 7, 2014.

Location Info


239 Cayuga Street
Union Springs, NY 13160
Cayuga County

Coordinates: 42.850425, -76.691794

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