- City:
- South Charleston, WV
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration completed improvements and repairs for the Edison School in South Charleston. The work consisted of “Painting and repairing Edison school, installing new fire escape.”
Source notes
48 WPA Projects Completed in West Va., Charleston Gazette, April 26, 1936, p. 11.
“Kanawha training center moving to former Edison Elem”: (https://www.wvgazettemail.com/business/kanawha-training-center-moving-to-former-edison-elem/article_4b67d8aa-9fa6-55e1-bc7c-443381babb5f.html), accessed February 28, 2018.
Aerial image from WVGIS SHPO: (mapwv.org/shpo), accessed February 28, 2018.
HPI form: (https://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/SHPOdocs/PDFs/ArchitecturalSites/KA-3711.pdf), accessed February 28, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on February 28, 2018.
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