- City:
- Islamorada, FL
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools, Libraries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This building was constructed by the WPA in 1936 as the Matecumbe School and Storm Shelter:
“After the 1935 hurricane, to build a new school Hugh Matheson exchanged land he owned on the highway for the beach site of the destroyed school. W.P.A constructed the new school and was to be a combination hurricane shelter and school. A second almost identical structure was also constructed in Tavernier. The Matecumbe school is now the Islamorada Library and in Tavernier it is the health department.” (www.keyshistory.org)
Source notes
https://www.keysarts.com/public_art/wpa_map.html
https://www.keyslibraries.org/about-us/locations/islamorada/
https://www.keyshistory.org/hurrmemorial.html
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