- City:
- Gulfport, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designers:
- Jr., Vinson B. Smith
- Contractor:
- Dye and Mullings
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
One of two schools constructed with 45% funding from Public Works Administration, the West Ward school had 16 rooms and a capacity in each for 40-45 students. A library/conference room was upstairs. The two buildings constructed at the same time by the same architects and builders cost a total of about $205,500. The building was demolished in 1994.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural New schools to be opened tonight. March 19, 1937. Biloxi Daily Herald, p. 1, 2.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 27, 2014.
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