- City:
- Ellwood City, PA
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designers:
- Robert A. Eckles, W. G. Eckles & Company
- Contractor:
- Cooke-Anderson Company
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1934, the Public Works Administration gave a $28,770 grant and $71,230 loan to the Ellwood City school board for an addition to Lincoln High School. The addition included 18 class rooms and a gymnasium. It was designed by Robert A. Eckles of W.G. Eckles & Company. The general construction contract was awarded to Cooke-Anderson Company of Beaver Pennsylvania. The school and addition are still in use.
Source notes
"Ellwood City Gets PWA Appropriation." New Castle News, 9 March 1934, page 18
"Eight Firms Seek Lincoln Contract." New Castle News, 5 April 1934, page 39
"Lincoln School Contracts Are Let." New Castle News, 5 June 1934, page 15
"Two More Contracts Awarded By Board." New Castle News, 23 June 1934, page 11
"Steel Work Rising On School Addition." New Castle News, 27 July 1934, page 35
Poole, Eric. "Chiller Theater: Auditorium, missing plans, complicate AC project" Ellwood City Ledger, 8 December 2014. https://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/story/news/local/2014/12/09/chiller-theater-auditorium-missing-plans/18634572007/
Site originally submitted by Andrew Gallentine on March 29, 2023.
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