- City:
- Stamford, TX
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designers:
- Architects, Voelcker & Dixon
- Contractor:
- C.H. Mothes
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Buff Brick building with tower above the entrance with the name “Oliver School”. Decorative cement work around the entrance.
The plaque at entrance says:
“FEDERAL EMERGENCY
ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HAROLD L. ICKES
ADMINISTRATOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
OLIVER SCHOOL
1939”
A passage in Corsicana newspaper article with title of “Texas is Granted Additional Funds for PWA Project” tells us the Stamford was awarded $40,500 in 1938 to build a school.
Source notes
(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22014802/multiple_locations_and_items_1938_pwa/) Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light, Corsicana, Texas, 20 Sep 1938.
Plaques at entrance.
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on August 4, 2019.
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