- City:
- Pauls Valley, OK
- Site Type:
- Gymnasiums, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built the Whitebead Gymnasium in Pauls Valley OK.
Contributor note: “The Whitebead School is located about five miles west of Pauls Valley on County Road 3200 (Kimberlin Road) – (two miles west of Interstate 35). The oldest school building on the property is a two-story brick school built in 1919. To the north of this school is the WPA-built gymnasium.
The gym is a one-story concrete block building with a gabled roof. It measures 60 x 79 feet, and is painted white. The gym has a small maintenance building added on the north, and is attached on the south by a hall leading to the school, and another school building on the southwest. There are three sets of 30-pane casement windows on the sides which are painted over with white paint. A recessed single glass door with sidelights is located on the northeast and southeast ends, each with a decorative relief painted red.
The Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory database shows this gym as constructed by the WPA in 1938-1939; however, a bronze shield near the southeast entrance shows 1936.”
Source notes
WPA marker on site.
Garvin County WPA Properties: https://www.okhistory.org/shpo/wpa/wpa5garvin.pdf
Waymarking: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1056V_Whitebead_Gymnasium_Pauls_Valley_OK
Site originally submitted by hamquilter on March 24, 2019.
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