- 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.
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