- City:
- Cranford, NJ
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In the mid 1930s the new Cranford High School building was constructed with assistance from the Federal Public Works Administration (PWA). In their photographic history of Cranford, New Jersey, Robert Fridlington and Lawrence Fuhro tell us that the high school building was dedicated on January 3, 1938. At the time, it was a six year school serving seventh through twelfth graders. In the words of Fridlington and Fuhro, “[t]he forty-nine-classroom building cost $850,000, nearly half the amount coming from the New Deal’s Public Works Administration.” (1996: 98)
Source notes
Cranford, Volume II (1996), by Robert Fridlington and Lawrence Fuhro Wikipedia: Cranford High SchoolSite originally submitted by Walter Boright on July 25, 2017.
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Currently I am trying to gather info on the building of Cranford High School for the Historic Preservation Committee in Cranford. Any photo’s of the original structure or the building of it. Any blueprints or info on the Architect, construction company, etc would be appreciated.
We are trying to gather info ignorer to create a Certificate of Eligibility to send to the state to get the building register.
Thank you,
Loretta Smith