Port Allen Middle School - Port Allen LA

City:: Port Allen, LA
Site Type:: Education and Health, Schools
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Description

"Port Allen is a town of 1,500 inhabitants, across the Mississippi from Baton Rouge. Its new high school is 1 story and part 2 stories in height and contains on the first floor 10 classrooms, administrative offices, and a first-aid room. The second floor has the science laboratories and an office. Connected with the building is the auditorium with a seating capacity of 700, a well-equipped stage and dressing rooms. The wall construction is concrete with a machine-rubbed finish on exterior. The project was completed in July 1938 at a construction cost of $158,795 and a project cost of $169,693."
(Short and Brown)

Source notes

C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).