- City:
- Paris, TX
- Site Type:
- Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Paris Junior College Main Building in Paris TX.
An article about the PJC Stadium being built by the WPA the article states that: “The same administrative force that constructed the main building and is now building a gymnasium at the new PJC plant will be in charge of stadium work. W. C. Christenson is superintendent of the college job, and John Mahaffey timekeeper.”
Source notes
The Paris News, Paris, Texas, 07 Feb 1941, (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20487132/the_paris_news/), accessed October 2019.
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on October 2, 2019.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
Join the Conversation