El Portal Elementary School (abandoned) – El Portal CA

City:
El Portal, CA

Site Type:
Schools, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1935

Completed:
1937

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

Two separate WPA projects were initiated at this school that was built in 1930. Sponsor: El Portal Grammar School District

WPA Proj. No. 65-3-3769, December 12, 1935, $2,567 “Painting inside walls, etc., on El Portal Grammar School.”

WPA Proj. No. 165-3-2074, December 11, 1936, $1,287, “Paint walls, window casings and make minor repairs to El Portal Grammar School, in El Portal, Mariposa County; also excavate and level school yard, repair road entrance and other work incidental thereto. In addition to projects specifically approved. El Portal Grammar School Dist. owned property.”

In 1963, a new school was constructed further down the road in a newer area being built up around Forest Service administrative facilities. The school building was bought by a church group and used for religious services until the cost of maintenance became prohibitive and the building was abandoned.

Source notes

WPA Job Card, Fresno Public Library, San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center

Memories of El Portal by James Law

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on February 25, 2018.

Location Info


Old El Portal Schoolhouse/Chapel
El Portal, CA

Location notes: 37.674761, -119.786800

Coordinates: 37.67518159999999, -119.78692339999998

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