- City:
- Fort Worth, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Designer:
- Joseph R. Pelich
Description
Polytechnic High School was built in 1936-37 by the PWA. The architect was Joseph R. Pelich and the cost was $483,000. The WPA landscaped the original 18.5 acre campus.
The school’s mascot is the Fighting Parrots–there’s a parrot on the
weathervane!
Source notes
https://schools.fwisd.org/polytechnic/Pages/OurHistory.aspxSite originally submitted by Susan Kline on May 5, 2013.
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