High School – Loyal WI

Description

A high school building in Loyal, Wisconsin was constructed with Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The exact location and status of the building is presently unknown to Living New Deal.

wiclarkcountyhistory.org:
“Formal dedication of the new high school building at Loyal will be made in exercises in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday. The dedicatory address will be given by John Callahan, State superintendent of public instruction and a full program in which many persons prominent in the affairs of the school, past and present will be introduced.

Construction on the new building was started December 5, 1937, and completed, for all practical purposes, on Sept. 2, 1938.  Three days later 230 children of the village’s grade and high schools opened their classes there.

The building houses nine classrooms, a large study room and a large combination gymnasium an auditorium.  It was built at a cost of approximately $85,000, of which 45 percent was furnished by the PWA. A part of the cost was paid by the school’s building fund and the remainder was secured through a loan by the state land office. At present, the building is 60-percent paid for, in spite of the fact that taxes were reduced in the district last summer.”