Stanton Elementary School – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1943

Completed:
1943

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for the construction of the Stanton Elementary School, on Naylor Road SE, in 1943, at the very end of the New Deal (New Deal programs wound down as the country went to war).

Stanton is still in use as a public elementary school.

Source notes

“PWA aid accepted on 7 projects in District to cost 3 millions,” Washington Post, November 14, 1942, p. B1

“A struggle for home front morale,” Washington Post, July 18, 1943, p. B5

Location Info


2701 Naylor Rd SE
Washington, DC 20020

Coordinates: 38.8592, -76.9685

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