Demonstration School (TWU; demolished) – Denton TX

City:
Denton, TX

Site Type:
Education and Health, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Completed:
1941

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The original Texas Woman’s University “Demonstration School served the teaching students of the University’s College of Education as a means of gaining practical experience. The original building was erected at the southeast corner of Bell Avenue and Texas Street in 1941. In 1959 a new Demonstration School building was built north of the TWU golf course. The original building became home to the Department of Occupation Therapy.” Since demolished, the building was constructed with the assistance of $30,000 of Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) funds / labor.

Source notes

"Building the New Deal: Federal Construction on College Campuses in 1930s Texas," by Kaitlyn Waynen https://twudigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p1281coll6/id/2700

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 9, 2017.

Location Info


Bell Ave. and Texas St.
Denton, TX

Coordinates: 33.222064, -97.127091

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