- City:
- Carriere, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Wilford S. Lockyer
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The elementary building was part of 11projects undertaken in Pearl River County in 1937. The school building was projected to cost $14,000. Projects included bridges, buildings at Pearl River College and other local schools, and a new City Hall. Wilford S. Lockyer was the architect for the school project. The building is still in use as part of the Carriere school system.
Source notes
WPA Projects in Progress in Area. Biloxi Daily Herald, August 20, 1937, p. 1.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History. Historic Resources Inventory database and map.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 4, 2018.
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