- City:
- Lawn, TX
- Site Type:
- Gymnasiums, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Gaskill-McDaniel
- Contractor:
- Bonike Brothers
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of a school gymnasium in Lawn TX.
Excerpt from Abilene Reporter-News (1939):
“Lawn Gymnasium To Be Dedicated
The newly-completed Lawn gymnasium will be dedicated Friday night. according to H. 0. Keese, school board president, who was in Abilene yesterday.
The gymnasium, a brick-tile structure, has been completed by Bonike Brothers of Abilene, contractors, for a total cost of $16,000.
Funds were provided by a PWA grant of $7,400 and a $10,000 bond voted at Lawn. Remainder of the money will be used in repairing the old school building. W. B. Williams is superintendent of the Lawn school.
School board members are Keese, J. C, Raper. secretary, A. R. Wade, Paul Cook, W. F, Landers, Paul Copeland and Taylor Lyles.”
PWA Docket No. TX [X]2258. PWA grant of $7,416. Total estimated cost $16,480. Approved 09/15/1938. Bids advertised November 1938. Contract awarded 11/17/1938 and construction begun 11/21/1938. Completed for total cost of $16,561 on 03/03/1939.
Source notes
Lawn Gymnasium To Be Dedicated, Abilene Reporter-News 2/16/1939.
Report No. 5. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. Region No. 5 Texas. January 3, 1940. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 188.
PWA and WPA Projects Get Official Okeh. (Nov. 2, 1938). Abilene Reporter News, p. 21.
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on August 4, 2019.
Additional contributions by Susan Allen.
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