- City:
- Garden Grove, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designer:
- Frederick Eley
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) made improvements to Garden Grove High School school in the 1930s in response to damage the school suffered during the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) rebuilt the structure now known as Heritage Hall.
Source notes
Connolly, Donald H. and G. I. Farman. Report of Accomplishment of the Operations Division. Works Progress Administration, Southern California. January 1, 1939.
Epting, Charles. The New Deal in Orange County. Charleston, The History Press, 2014.
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on August 28, 2011.
Additional contributions by Diem Duong.
Site Details
| Federal Cost | Local Cost | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|
| $16,715 | $18,065 | $34,780 |
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