- City:
- Wells, ME
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- Miller and Beal Inc. of Portland
Description
Wells Junior High School (originally the third high school facility) in Wells, Maine was constructed as a New Deal project; the facility was built with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $40,909 grant for the project, whose total cost was $91,890. The facility, located at the north end of the present educational complex, has since been dramatically expanded.
This building was designed by the architecture firm Miller & Beal, Inc. of Portland, Maine. Two other schools used the exact same design: Cape Elizabeth High School in Cape Elizabeth, Maine (now known as Cape Elizabeth Middle School) and Tewksbury Center School in Tewksbury, Massachusetts (which has either been demolished or will soon be demolished, according to Buildings of New England).
PWA Docket No. ME [W]1004.
Source notes
Source: National Archives: 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 6.
https://buildingsofnewengland.com/2021/04/18/tewksbury-center-school-1934-2021/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 30, 2018.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere; Adrian Dowling.
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