- 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
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