- 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.
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