- City:
- Manter, KS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1935
Description
A high school in Manter, Kanas was constructed in 1934-5 with federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The facility is still in service, part of a greater high school campus. The P.W.A. supplied a $20,623 grant for the project, whose total cost was $73,187.
The school building is located at the north end of Main Street, on 5th Avenue. Like other facilities from this era in southwest Kansas, the building features beautiful detailing above entrances and windows featuring local motifs, reflecting the landscape and sunflowers, the state flower.
A personal visit in 2018 determined the location of a missing dedication plaque inside one of the entrances to the school.
P.W.A. Docket No. KS 4662
Source notes
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 165.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 5, 2018.
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Pamela K Kiefer
Evan:
My name is Pamela Bilbery Kiefer and I attended the Manter Grade School from 1st Grade
thru 8th grade. Then attended Stanton County High School in Johnson KS from 9th grade
thru 12th grade.
Those are good pictures although I dont recall a plague in the entrance to the school.
I have been down there in the last year and the school is just empty and sitting there.
It is sad I have great memories of attending school there.
I remember an old red school before this school was built and I went to kindergarten
in this building. I don’t recall what happened to the school.