- City:
- Magee, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designers:
- Architect Standard Plans, Mississippi Department of Education, School Building Services
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
A vocational building was constructed at the Magee School Complex in Magee, Mississippi during the Great Depression using standard plans. The building was undertaken with the assistance of labor provided by Civil Works Administration (CWA), a job creation program established under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The CWA was designed to provide temporary employment for manual laborers and was replaced with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) after 1934.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architecturalSite originally submitted by Susan C. Allen on January 4, 2015.
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