- City:
- Carnegie, OK
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built a school addition and gymnasium in Carnegie, OK.
Contributor note: “Facing State Highway 58 (S. Carnegie Street) is a pre-WPA school building now called The Memorial Building, which serves as a community center. On the south side of this school, a classroom extension has been added. A change in the color of the brick differentiates where this addition was added. Windows on the south side of this addition are set in triples. A WPA shield on the southeast corner by the entrance reads 1937-1938.
Perpendicular to the original school building on the east side (rear) is a large gymnasium. The gym has a gabled roof, with a concrete block over the south entrance which has been stamped with the WPA shield and the year 1937. This entrance is recessed and flanked by two five-sided brick pillars. Windows in this portion of the building are covered with metal siding.”
Source notes
Site visit.
WPA plaques.
Waymarker, School Addition and Gymnasium, Carnegie, OK.
Site originally submitted by hamquilter on February 18, 2019.
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