- City:
- Coxburg, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- Robert William Naef
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Project W1204 was approved July 21, 1936 in the amount of a $20,000 loan and a $17,590 grant. Construction began October 12, and was completed December 29, 1937 for a total cost of $41,043. Robert William Naef was architect. Both buildings replaced the school and vocational teacher house destroyed by fire in 1935,
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory database. https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/search.aspx
PWA gives state almost $900,000. Clarion-Ledger, Jul. 29, 1936, p. 1.
13 new projects of PWA okehed. Clarion-Ledger, Jul. 29, 1936, p. 14.
Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Report No. 5, Region No. 3 Mississippi. January 3, 1940, p. 105. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 17, 2018.
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