Holmes Elementary School – Lincoln NE

City:
Lincoln, NE

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1937

Completed:
1937

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Holmes Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. Construction occurred in 1937. PWA Docket No. Neb. [W]1282.

Short and Stanley-Brown: “The Holmes School occupies a 10-acre plot, thus providing ample space for playgrounds. It accommodates 160 pupils. The building is one story and a basement in height, and is T-shaped in plan. It contains three classrooms, a combination library and museum, a playroom, a storage room for bicycles, and a community room which has a stage and a kitchen.

The construction is semifireproof. Exterior walls are brick trimmed with wood, the floor is reinforced concrete, and the roof is wood covered with slate. It was completed in August 1937 at a construction cost of $58,401 and a project cost of $61,030.”

Source notes

C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).

Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 149.

Location Info


5230 Sumner St.
Lincoln, NE 68506

Coordinates: 40.795632, -96.64828

Site Details

Total Cost
$61,030.00

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2 comments on “Holmes Elementary School – Lincoln NE

  1. David Bagby

    Address: the street name is wrong, which means the Google Map address is wrong too.

    It’s “sumNer St.” – not sumMer street.

    Actual Address:
    5230 Sumner St.
    Lincoln, NE 68506

    which gives this location:
    5230 Sumner St
    Lincoln, NE 68506
    40.796405, -96.647832

    Check out the street view there – the school is still there, cupola and all!

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2 comments on “Holmes Elementary School – Lincoln NE

  1. David Bagby

    Address: the street name is wrong, which means the Google Map address is wrong too.

    It’s “sumNer St.” – not sumMer street.

    Actual Address:
    5230 Sumner St.
    Lincoln, NE 68506

    which gives this location:
    5230 Sumner St
    Lincoln, NE 68506
    40.796405, -96.647832

    Check out the street view there – the school is still there, cupola and all!

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