Southeast High School – Kansas City MO

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.

Location Info


3500 E. Meyer St.
Kansas City, MO 64132

Coordinates: 39.00857, -94.54586

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