Diamond School, Princess’ Quarter – Christiansted, St. Croix VI

City:
St. Croix, VIRGIN-ISLANDS

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs

Completed:
1934

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The CWA did construction work for the Diamond School on St. Croix. “Setting door frames with concrete forms around, setting concrete forms around steel sashes, laying rib lath for roof, erecting iron columns for lean to roof preparing to pour roof”

Source notes

National Archives, RG 55, Records of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Correspondence and related records, CWA Programs in the V.I., 1933-34, Box 2. Historic Diamond School, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 1976, accessed September 1, 2017. Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, and K De Fine Licht. Diamond School, Diamond, St. Croix, VI. Documentation Compiled After 1933. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, (https://www.loc.gov/item/vi0159).

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on May 17, 2017.

Location Info


Diamond School
St. Croix, VI

Coordinates: 17.7108081, -64.83014600000001

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