- City:
- Laurel, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designer:
- Krouse & Brasfield
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Colonial Revival style Stone Deavours school was designed by architects Krouse & Brasfield. PWA project W1059 for $23,881 grant was approved 9/25/1935 and completed 7/28/1936 for total of $56,477. The building was in use as Laurel School District offices in 1988 when it was destroyed by fire.
Source notes
Report No. 5. Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. (January 3, 1940). Region No. 3 Mississippi. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 104.
PWA Projects for State Amounting to $4,122,097 are Given Presidential OK. (Oct 1, 1935). Clarion-Ledger, p. 1, 10.
Gholson, M. (Jan 17 1988). Records survive Laurel blaze. Hattiesburg American, p. 13.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved Oct 4, 2019 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Laurel&County=Any
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 15, 2019.
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