- City:
- Poplarville, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- National Youth Administration (NYA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Robert William Naef
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
NYA boys on the Pearl River Junior College campus erected a vocational building, while the girls worked in home economics. Hancock Hall was completed 1938 by the National Youth Administration. The architect was Robert William Naef. The building was destroyed in 1961.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory, Poplarville 109-POP-0014-X. Retrieved Sept. 12, 2020 from:
https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Poplarville&County=Any
NYA Unit Gets Praise at PRC: 45 students erect new building, do home economics work. (May 8, 1938). Clarion-Ledger, p. 4.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on September 24, 2020.
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