- City:
- West Des Moines, IA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA), Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This suburban Des Moines elementary school was constructed in 1939 under the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. In 2018 it was adaptively reused as the Phenix School Apartments, which provides live-work space to artists.
Source notes
Building plaque.
Phoenix School: (https://www.phenixschoolwdm.com/) accessed June 2019.
Site originally submitted by Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock on June 22, 2019.
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