- City:
- Redondo Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The science building at Union High School, Redondo Beach, California, was funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA). It was built in 1939 and dedicated in November.
The building’s style is Moderne with lovely Art Deco decorations in bas-relief around the entrances (nicely highlighted by paint colors in the 2014 photos).
The science building is still in use.
The PWA also paid for a reconstruction of the Union High School auditorium (presumably damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake). That building was recently replaced.
Connolly and Farman’s 1939 report prematurely attributed these projects to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), but that did not come to pass, as the brass plaque on the school clearly shows (see 1939 photograph). Note that the PWA had been transferred to the new Federal Works Administration (FWA) that year.
Source notes
https://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_11431003?source=rss
Connolly, Donald H. and G. I. Farman. Report of Accomplishment of the Operations Division. Works Progress Administration, Southern California. January 1, 1939.
Site Details
| Federal Cost | Total Cost |
|---|---|
| $33,359.00 | $66,763.00 |
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