Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Started: 1935
Completed: 1937
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Description
Laredo, Texas’s historic Martin High School was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project during the Great Depression. The building is still in use today.
The PWA supplied a $250,000 loan and $101,853 grant toward the $352,283 total cost of the project. Work occurred between August 1935 and April 1937.
(PWA Docket No. TX 5725)
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 181.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 4, 2014.
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