- City:
- Lake Providence, LA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- H. H. Land
- Contractor:
- M. T. Reed Construction Company
Description
Construction of this school was undertaken in Lake Providence, Louisiana during the Great Depression with the assistance of funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The funding was allocated as part of a joint project with a training school in the same city. The brick school contained 20 classrooms, a gymnasium, offices, locker rooms, lavatories, and shower baths, and was completed at a cost of $140,093 (Monroe Morning World, 1937). The school was destroyed by fire in 1992 (Leighninger, 2007).
The exact location of the school is unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
Leighninger, R. D. (2007). Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. The University Press of Mississippi. "Lake Providence school planned by H. H. Land." (December 12, 1937). Monroe Morning World, p. 32.Site originally submitted by Susan C. Allen on December 3, 2014.
Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $140,093.00 |
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