- City:
- Livingston Manor, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
“The site of this project is a peninsula, locally known as ‘The Island’ and in addition to the school building, there are baseball and football fields, a running track, tennis courts, and a park containing beautiful old trees. The school, which is 2 stories in height, contains 28 classrooms, a combination gymnasium-auditorium, a kindergarten, cafeteria, library, rooms for domestic science, medical and dental clinics, and a garage for 5 school buses. Construction is semifireproof. The exterior walls are brick trimmed with cast stone and the roofs are covered with slate. The project was completed in April 1939 at a construction cost of $582,244 and a project cost of $642,496.”
(Short and Brown)
“The Livingston Manor Central School, which opened on February 20, 1939, is one of the most beautiful educational structures in the State of New York. Situated on a peninsula of land known as the Island, facing the Willowemoc River and the village of Livingston Manor, the imposing building of Georgian colonial architecture commands the attention and admiration of all.”
(https://lmcs.k12.ny.us)
Source notes
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939). https://lmcs.k12.ny.us/spotlight.cfm?sp=758&school=0Contribute to this Site
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The river is the New York State Catskill Forest Preserve line, so the school belongs with in the Forest Preserve while the town does not!