- City:
- Sinclair, WY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Designer:
- F. H. Porter
Description
Federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds enabled the construction of the elementary school in Sinclair, Wyoming during the 1930s. The school continues to function in that role today. PWA photos at the National Archives actually deem this project the Parco school, Parco being the old name for Sinclair. The original owner of this project was listed as being Sweetwater County School District #3, though Sinclair is actually in Carbon County.
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown write about the PWA school: “The new building replaced a leased 4-room dilapidated wooden structure and two apartments rented for classrooms in an apartment building.
It provides eight classrooms and a centrally locate combination playroom-auditorium with clerestory windows.
The construction is semifireproof, the walls being brick and the roof wood covered with Spanish tile. The exterior walls are faced with two colors of brick, the darker shade being used for a base and trim around the entrance and certain windows.
It was completed in December 1936 at a construction cost of $46,722 and a project cost of $50,913.”
The project was PWA Docket No. WY 1018-R.
Source notes
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).
National Archives Record Group 135-SAR:
Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”;
Box 23; Wyoming; Folder 1: Schools.
Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $50,913.00 |
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Gerald Stipe
Beverly C Howard
Gabriel Milner
Terri Schultz
Carol Smith
Laura Steinfeld Miller
My entire family attended the parco school as well my three boy’s…. It is a wonderful building
Is this the same building which was later used as the library (on right front side) and for Sunday School by the Community Church (on left front side), as well as the Campfire Girls meeting in a room more to the rear? That would have been in the 1940’s.
Does anyone out there know the answer to the question?
No, it is not the same building. The building that has housed the library is located on Lincoln Avenue between 6th & 7th. The newer elementary school was located on 9th street. Sadly, it was closed in 2016 by the school district because of budget issues.
No the Library building is on the same street as the Rec Center. School is on 9th Street
Can you provide a source for this?
I attended the school in the 70’s, K-5th grade before my family moved out of state. It serviced K-8th at that time. Anyone remember Mr.Lenz, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs.Foster, or Mrs. Soleck? Swimming lessons was a bus trip to Rawlins. Hot lunch was a bus. Ride, or walk to the Parco. Recesses were organized games lead by teachers, or free time on the equipment. And, those field trips to the river for picnics, crawdad catching, and toad hunting a blast along with the foot trips to the hills to picnic and catch hornet toads. We lived across the street. Great times when school was more educational than Woke.