School (no longer extant) – Mattawamkeag ME

City:
Mattawamkeag, ME

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

A former Mattawamkeag school building opened in 1939. Constructed as a New Deal project, the facility was built with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $27,000 grant for the project, whose total cost was $59,264. Unfortunately, “the solid two-story brick structure was leveled by fire in May 1971.”

PWA Docket No. ME [X]1121

Source notes

Source: 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 6.

The Bridgeport Post from Bridgeport, Connecticut; January 2, 1973 (pg. 29)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/60590325/ (accessed Mar. 2018)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 30, 2018.

Location Info


Mattawamkeag, ME

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 45.514, -68.354

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