- City:
- Industrial, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designers:
- Jr., Vinson B. Smith
- Contractor:
- Pat Fowler
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Industrial Consolidated School building was PWA project 3003 approved Dec. 28, 1933. Construction started May 22, 1934 and was completed Aug. 3, 1934. PWA supplied a loan of $10,000 and grant of $4, 182. The county voted school bonds to pay for the building, designed by architect Vinson B. Smith, Jr. Horace Stansel was the federal engineer for Mississippi projects. Contractor Pat Fowler delayed occupation of the building until the PWA portion of the funds were delivered.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural.
Report No. 5, Region No. 3 Mississippi. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. Jan. 3, 1940, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 104.
District votes bonds. The Daily Herald, Oct. 3, 1933, p. 2.
Dedication halted; Contractor holds keys of building. Biloxi Daily Herald, Aug. 7, 1934, p. 8.
Mississippi is awarded 11 million dollars on Public Works projects. Clarion-Ledger, Aug. 13, 1934, p. 10.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 21, 2018.
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