- City:
- Kansas City, MO
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- Wight & Wight
- Contractor:
- Kaiser Ducett
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Kansas City’s Southeast High School was constructed as part of a New Deal project during the Great Depression. The Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied a grant of $500,000 toward the construction of multiple school buildings, for which construction occurred between 1934 and 1938. Total construction cost for the multiple-school project was about $1.75 million. Southeast High School bears both a cornerstone and plaque dating it to 1937.
PWA Docket No. 2409.
Source notes
Building plaque.
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 157.
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on March 13, 2013.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.
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