- City:
- Glocester, RI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designer:
- Albert Harkness
Description
A simple brick school building. It replaced a wooden school on the same site. The architect was Albert Harkness, of Providence, who designed the nearby Chepachet School at the same time. It was later renamed the Adah S. Hawkins Elementary School, which was succeeded by the Fogarty Memorial School. It is today occupied as offices.
Source notes
Page 57, American Architect and Architecture, Volume 150 (1937) Page 155, Public Buildings: Architecture under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939 (C. W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown, 1939)Site originally submitted by John P. on September 30, 2014.
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Carol A Dailey-Randall-Ketchum
Why did kids from
Chepachet go to Ada S Hawkins school instead of Chepachet elementary school ? Was Chepachet elementary schoool not built till when?