- City:
- Houston, TX
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A Public Works Administration package of school construction grants of $3,821,000 helped build Lamar High School in Southwest Houston, along with other schools in the city. The Moderne style school was completed in December 1937. There is a large bas-relief map of Texas carved over one entrance.
Source notes
Strom, Stephen R., "A Legacy of Pride: Houston's PWA Buildings," Houston History Magazine, (https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/legacy-civic-pride-PWA-HR-17.2.pdf), retrieved March 26, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on March 26, 2018.
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