- City:
- Sanford, ME
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Lafayette School in Sanford, Maine was constructed as a New Deal project; the facility was built with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $36,739 grant for the project, whose total cost was $82,347.
PWA Docket No. ME [X]1115
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.
The Bridgeport Post from Bridgeport, Connecticut; January 2, 1973 (pg. 29)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/60590325/ (accessed Mar. 2018)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 30, 2018.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere.
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