Chepachet School (former) - Glocester RI

: Chepachet School

Project type: Education and Health, City and Town Halls, Civic Facilities, Schools

Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Started: 1934

Completed: 1935

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Description

A small brick school building, built to replace a wooden school on the same site. It was designed by Albert Harkness of Providence, who also designed the Harmony School at the same time. The school replaced five one-room schools in the town. It is today the Glocester Town Hall.

: Record detail

Record detail
Photo: National Archives Record Group 69N © All rights reserved.

Record detail

: Chepachet School

Chepachet School
Photo: National Archives Record Group 135-SAR © All rights reserved.

Chepachet School

Source notes

Page 53, American Architect and Architecture, Volume 150 (1937)
Page 155, Public Buildings: Architecture under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939 (C. W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown, 1939)

America builds: The record of PWA (pg. 133)

Project originally submitted by John P on September 30, 2014.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.

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Location Info

1145 Putnam Pike
Glocester, RI 02814

Coordinates: 41.912275, -71.668232

Chepachet School (former) – Glocester RI

Chepachet School