- City:
- Cleveland, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- J. S. Sigler - Campus Engineer
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The annex to the Hill Demonstration School was constructed with funds from the WPA. The building was dedicated in 1939 and named for the director of the demonstration school. The Art Moderne building was designed by campus engineer J. S. Sigler, and was demolished in 1974.
Source notes
Gunn J. W., & Castle, G. C. (1980). A Pictorial History of Delta State University. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press. Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory. "Doolittle Building." Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architecturalSite originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 9, 2014.
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