School Gymnasium - Wortham TX

City:: Wortham, TX
Site Type:: Gymnasiums, Education and Health
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Completed:: 1940
Quality of Information:: Good
Marked:: No
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration built a school gymnasium in Wortham, Freestone County. The structure has a reinforced concrete foundation, rock walls, concrete beams, built-up roof, and steel trusses. The interior floor finish is wood floor on concrete sub-floor.

The official project number is 665-662-619.

Source notes

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/26213846186/in/album-72157664476692624/

Texas and the WPA Texas State Parks, National Archives images digitized by the Historic Sites and Structures Program staff of Texas State Parks (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department): (https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/albums/72157664476692624/with/26213846186/), accessed May 19, 2018.

Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on May 19, 2018.