Commerce Middle School – Commerce OK

City:
Commerce, OK

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools, Gymnasiums

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Started:
1935

Completed:
1935

Description

Originally built as the community’s high school, one of the facilities that makes up what is now Commerce Middle School campus was constructed as a New Deal project. The 136′ x 103′ structure, which features a gymnasium, was “initiated by the Oklahoma Emergency Relief Administration and finished by WPA labor.” It is located along S Cherry St., as opposed to Commerce St.

Source notes

https://www.okhistory.org/shpo/wpa/wpa3ottawa.pdf (accessed Mar. 2018)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 4, 2018.

Location Info


Commerce St. and Cherry St.
Commerce, OK 74339

Coordinates: 36.932534, -94.872668

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