- City:
- Laurel, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Landry and Matthes
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Shady Grove school was construction supported by the Public Works Administration as project x1300. A grant of $45,000 was approved Sep. 29, 1938 and construction begun Dec. 5. Architects were Landry and Matthes for the one-story building. The project was 96% completed Dec. 1, 1939 for a total cost of $87,424. The school closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2016.
Source notes
Report No. 5 Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. Region No. 3, Mississippi. (January 3, 1040). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 106.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved Oct. 4, 2019 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Laurel&County=Any
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 29, 2019.
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