- City:
- Kiln, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A Works Progress Administration project employed 25 workers to construct a new concrete school building at Kiln in 1936. WPA financed $15,790 for the new school and to construct additional classrooms from salvaged lumber when the old school was demolished. Four years later, WPA project 50,086 allotted $17,709 to complete construction on the school building, and to add an auditorium. The building became a parochial school and following Hurricane Katrina, was renovated for use as a church by the Annunciation Parish.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives & History. Historic Resources Inventory, no. 045-BSL-5123. Retrieved Dec. 3, 2019 from: https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Any&County=Hancock
WPA repairs Kiln School. (Jun 4, 1936). The Newton Record, p. 7.
Raymond Athletic Field Improvement All Set by WPA. (Aug 30, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 15.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 8, 2019.
Site Details
| Federal Cost |
|---|
| $15,790.00 |
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