Leland Elementary School
Project type: Education and Health, Schools
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA)
Designers: A. H. Town, N. W. Overstreet
Marked:
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Description
The Leland Elementary School was designed by N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town, and was constructed in 1935 as part of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed the PWA). The building complex illustrates the simplicity of the Modern movement that evolved during the Great Depression.
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Leland Elementary School front door
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Leland Elementary Federal Plaque
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database (http://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=29898&view=facts&y=959); historic building plaque from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 3, 2013.
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