- City:
- Magnolia, DE
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“The new Magnolia School replaces a four-room frame structure which had served the school district for 50 years and which was heated by stoves and lacked proper sanitary accommodations.
The new building is one story in height, with provision in the basement for the heating plant, and provides four classrooms and an auditorium with a stage.
The construction is semifireproof. The exterior walls are red brick backed up with hollow tile and trimmed with wood and limestone. The first floor is a concrete slab and the roof construction is wood covered with slate.
The project was completed in June 1935 at a construction cost of $73,536 and a project cost of $80,445.”
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).Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $80,445.00 |
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Terry Miller
I started 1st grade in this school. My dad was in the AF and stationed at Dover.
Must of been about 1963.