- City:
- Gulfport, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designers:
- Jr., Vinson B. Smith
- Contractor:
- Dye and Mullings
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
One of two new schools built with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds, the two schools combined were constructed for about $205,500, with PWA providing 45% of the funds (New Schools to be Opened Tonight, 1937). The school contained an auditorium to seat 498. It was demolished circa 1999.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural New schools to be opened tonight. March 19, 1947. Biloxi Daily Herald, p. 1, 2.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 27, 2014.
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