- City:
- Prentiss, MS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1940
- Contractor:
- Smith and Norwood
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
WPA project 41146 approved $19,859 for “new construction, enlargement, alteration, and improvement of the building, including addition of paintings, installing of plumbing and electric facilities and other operating equipments and appurtenances to perform incidental and appurtenant work” (Half Million, 1940, p. 15). Smith and Norwood were selected to construct a “complete modernization program of the Jeff Davis county courthouse”(To Remodel, 1940, p. 6) with construction beginning May 1940.
Source notes
Half Million WPA Work Set. (Mar 7, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 15.
Project Approved. (Mar 10, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 5.
To Remodel Stone County Courthouse. (Apr 25, 1940). Biloxi Daily Herald, p. 6.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on January 2, 2020.
Site Details
| Federal Cost |
|---|
| $19,859.00 |
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