- City:
- Bowling Green, MO
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Bonsack & Pearce
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The length of this building faces to the east and has a new central building that is flanked by the PWA projects to the north and south. To the south is the gymnasium and auditorium. To the north is the building labeled Grade School. The new central part of this complex replaced an older part of the public school that predated 1939. The PWA buildings have been well-maintained and are in excellent condition. All have a brick façade above a cut-rock base.
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- Palmyra School, Elementary school addition to right of newer central addition
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- Gymnasium/Auditorium, Palmyra Schools
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- Gymnasium/Auditorium, Palmyra Schools, to left of newer central addition
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- Gymnasium/Auditorium, Palmyra Schools
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- Gymnasium/Auditorium, Palmyra Schools
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- Gymnasium/Auditorium, Palmyra Schools
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- Palmyra Schools plaque
Source notes
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on July 20, 2015.
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