High School Improvements – Yazoo City MS

Description

Yazoo City’s 1917 high school was renovated and a new annex built in 1938-1939 with funding from PWA. A grant of $46,227 was provided toward a total cost of $159,427. At 84% completion, the cost was $89,831. The project was approved as PWA x1322 9/7/1938 and construction began 12/9/1938. It was completed 11/20/1939. The annex addition added a gymnasium, dressing rooms, 600 spectator seats, ten new classrooms including a band room, industrial arts workshop, and home economics department. Renovations to the old building included converting the gymnasium into an auditorium with the addition of a stage and sloping floor, converting study hall into assembly room and library, and creating commercial department and science rooms. A corridor addition connected the two structures. A fire in 1953 destroyed the 1917 building, and a new addition was built and the 1939 annex was renovated. Although the building is still extant, it is not in use. Architects were N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town and construction was by Coleman & Britt Construction Company.