Chandler High School Gymnasium and Improvements – Chandler AZ

City:
Chandler, AZ

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools, Gymnasiums

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

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Description

CUSD: “In 1939, a new gymnasium was constructed on the high school campus, immediately southwest of the old gymnasium. Built at a cost of $70,000, the new structure had a cafeteria at the rear, with dressing rooms for boys and girls in the basement. An April 13, 1939 article in the Chandler Arizonan touted the new building as “one of the finest in Arizona … as modern as up-to-date builders and equipment furnishers can make it.” The work was funded by a $33,000 bond issue as well as a $27,000 federal grant from the Public Works Administration. The original gymnasium was remodeled to create woodworking and agricultural shops. The old building was “refinished” on the outside to conform to the main building and new gymnasium.”

Source notes

History of Chandler High School: https://www.cusd80.com/domain/923 (accessed Nov. 4, 2018)

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 191.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 3, 2018.

Location Info


350 N Arizona Ave.
Chandler, AZ 85225

Coordinates: 33.307951, -111.843096

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