Ferris School (former) - Ferris TX

City:: Ferris, TX
Site Type:: Schools, Education and Health
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started:: 1938
Completed:: 1940
Quality of Information:: Minimal
Marked:: Yes
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration built the Ferris School between 1938 and 1940 under official project number 65-1-66-287. The brick building had 33 rooms. The former school is currently the Ferris Independent School District Administrative Services building.

Source notes

Note cards on historical photographs from the National Archives and Records Administration digitized by the Historic Sites and Structures Program, Texas State Parks (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department):
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/albums/72157666543460231), accessed April 16, 2018.

Plaque on building.

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on April 16, 2018.