Lower Elementary School – Magee MS

City:
Magee, MS

Site Type:
Schools, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1937

Completed:
1938

Designer:
Edgar Lucian Malvaney

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The Magee grammar school was completed as PWA project W1215. The project was approved 8/19/1937 and a $10,627 grant awarded toward a total cost of $23,615. Construction began 12/4/1937 and completed 3/18/1938. The architect was Edgar Lucian Malvaney.

Source notes

Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. (January 3, 1940). Report # 5, Region # 3 Mississippi. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Project Division, p. 105.

Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved April 3, 2018 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural

"Magee School Job Approved." (August 20, 1937). Clarion-Ledger, p. 17.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on April 3, 2018.

Location Info


1st Street NE
Magee, Mississippi 39111
Simpson County

Coordinates: 31.874267, -89.728914

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