High School Gymnasium – Rule TX

City:
Rule, TX

Site Type:
Gymnasiums, Education and Health

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

Started:
1935

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a high school gymnasium in Rule TX in 1935. “Word has been received by Supt. U. U. Clark of the Rule high school that the WPA project of a new gymnasium has been approved at Washington and the money allocated. Work Is scheduled to begin In the next days. Mr. Sheppard, engineer of the government, has been appointed to supervise this work. The application for this project was put through the district office at Wichita Falls.”

Source notes

Abilene Reporter-News / Abilene, Texas / 17 Nov 1935, (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27099911/rule_gym/), accessed November 2019.

Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on November 8, 2019.

Location Info


1100 Hwy-6
Rule, TX Haskell County

Location notes: 33.178129, -99.894600

Coordinates: 32.121446, -98.54573010000001

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