School Administration Building Addition – Oakland MS

City:
Oakland, MS

Site Type:
Schools, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA), Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Designers:
A. H. Town, N. W. Overstreet

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works built a School Administration Building Addition in Oakland MS.

The addition to the Oakland 1909 school was project 1317, approved 8/12/1938 for a grant of $19,018. Architect was N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town. The first contract was awarded 11/4/1938 and construction started 12/21/1938. It was completed 9/9/1939 for a total cost of $39,807.

Source notes

Report No. 5, Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Region No. 3, Mississippi. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, p. 106.

Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory, Oakland. Retrieved July 2019. Inventory: 161-OAK-0004.1-X, Oakland School (White) Complex, Administration Building.

School Receives PWA Grant. (Aug. 13, 1938). Greenwood Commonwealth, p. 1.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 7, 2019.

Location Info


Locust and Walnut St.
Oakland, MS 38948
Yalobusha County

Location notes: Site located in center of block, bounded by Locust and Walnut, Cedar and Hickory.

Coordinates: 34.056534, -89.91742092460629

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