- City:
- Silver Spring, MD
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Sligo Creek Elementary School in Silver Spring MD – the former Montgomery Blair High School – was built in 1935 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA).
A 1939 report by the PWA provide details:
“The building contains 13 classrooms, a special English classroom with a stage, administrative offices, a conference room, laboratories for science and biology, a library, rooms for music and domestic science, and a cafeteria for the students. The school was named for the Postmaster General of President Lincoln’s Cabinet.
The construction is steel frame with reinforced-concrete floor slabs, exterior walls of red brick trimmed with limestone and wood, and a roof covered with slate. Acoustical plaster is generally used for the ceilings.
The project was completed in September 1935 at a construction cost of $209,234 and a project cost of $275,013.” (Short and Stanley-Brown)
In the 1990s, the school building was converted into a combination of Sligo Creek Elementary School and Silver Spring International Middle School.
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. US Government Printing Office, 1939.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Blair_High_School
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on June 4, 2012.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
Site Details
Total Cost | Site #s |
---|---|
$275,013.00 | 1780 |
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