- City:
- Morehouse, MO
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The PWA provided funds for the construction of a 2-story gymnasium/auditorium for the Morehouse School, featuring a brick facade with banks of classrooms flanking the gymnasium. The total cost for the project was $62,000 (docket #1488). The school closed in 2013, relocating to nearby Sikeston, and the building is now home to a for-profit youth rehabilitation center called Proverb Academy, Inc.
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- Morehouse Gymnasium and Auditorium
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- Morehouse Classrooms at rear
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- Morehouse Gymnasium and Auditorium
Source notes
PWA docket #1488
Margaret McNeary, "Group To Transform Morehouse School To Youth Rehabilitation Center," KRCU Public Radio, May 26, 2013, accessed July 14, 2015.
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on July 14, 2015.
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