- City:
- Nashville, TN
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1940
- Designers:
- Joseph Holman, Thomas Marr
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
With federal funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) the Cockrill School was constructed in 1939 and opened in late January 1940. Cockrill School replaced an older school, and provided space for 700 students in 17 classrooms.
Cockrill School was part of a citywide PWA school building project that included Lockeland and Caldwell Schools for white students and Carter-Lawrence and Pearl Schools for African Americans. According to an article in the Nashville Tennessean (1940), the schools were “equipped with a sound system and radio, modern, new furniture, a projector for visual instruction, a library and teacher workroom, health clinic, modern cafeteria and an auditorium with chairs that can be removed so that the room may be used for recreational purposes.”
Source notes
Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission historical marker (see photo)
Nashville Tennessean, 28 January 1940
Site originally submitted by Tara Mitchell Mielnik on December 27, 2014.
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