- City:
- Egbert, Golden Prairie, WY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designer:
- F. H. Porter
Description
A grade school building for Egbert and Golden Prairie, Laramie County, Wyoming was constructed as part of a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. Construction on the building was completed in 1939, though operations were discontinued as part of rural school consolidation in 1959.
The location and present status of the building is unknown to Living New Deal.
PWA Docket No. WY 1020-R
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 23: Wyoming file; Folder 1: Schools. https://www.jcshepard.com/2014/08/cheyenne-laramie-county-wyoming-historical-timeline/ National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 157.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 16, 2017.
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Anonymous
This school was bought privately and torn down. The bricks were reused to build a house. The actual location where it was is.
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