- City:
- Dupont, IN
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Now (2023) apparently unused, but still owned by Madison (Indiana) Consolidated Schools. Gym was built by WPA in 1938 behind the 1926 Lancaster Township Grade and High School. School was replaced with a new building attached to the gym.
Source notes
Kyle Neddenriep, "Historic Hoosier Gyms: Discovering Bygone Basketball Landmarks," The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2010.
WPA record card, OPN 465-52-2-274 (3/1/36), in the collection of the Lawrence County Historical Museum, Bedford, Indiana.
Site originally submitted by Doug Logan on February 3, 2023.
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