- City:
- Glocester, RI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Schools, City and Town Halls
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designer:
- Albert Harkness
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.
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)
Site originally submitted by John P on September 30, 2014.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.
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