- City:
- Durango, CO
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designer:
- Charles Thomas
- Contractor:
- Raymond C. Whitlock
Description
Now the privately-owned Smiley Building, what had been constructed as the Smiley Junior High School was built as a New Deal project with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds.
“With a design from Colorado Springs Architect Charles Thomas and funding from a $97,000 bond and an $86,198 grant from FDR’s Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, the School District initiated work on the new building in 1935. The contractor, Raymond C. Whitlock, completed the work the following year for a price of $191,188. The School District declared the building surplus in 1995 when they abandoned Smiley Junior High for the recently constructed Escalante Middle School.”
Source notes
https://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/la-plata-county https://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/smiley-buildingSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 22, 2017.
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