- City:
- Maben, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Overstreet and Town
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
A new $52,900 addition was added to the school at Maben in 1938. Approximately 52 men were employed in the project designed by architects Overstreet and Town. The Board of Trustees for the school contributed materials. In June 1938, request had been made for $33,000 from PWA, which was not awarded. Funding was secured from WPA. A fire in 1953 destroyed almost half of the school including most of the new addition.
Source notes
WPA to begin work on nine new projects. (Oct 20, 1938). Enterprise-Journal, p. 3.
Maben School Fire-Damaged. (Dec 21, 1953). Enterprise-Journal, p. 1.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved Nov 23, 2019 from: https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Maben&County=Any
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 25, 2019.
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