Whitney School (demolished) Renovations – Ashburnham MA

City:
Ashburnham, MA

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Completed:
1937

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted work at the since-demolished Whitney School, which had been located on [South] School Street in South Ashburnham, in 1937.

W.P.A. Bulletin: “In Ashburnham a long needed assembly room will be available for pupils of Emmeline Jewell Whitney School when a current project is completed. In order to create the assembly hall partitions are being removed and “accordion” style folding doors installed. Steal beams will support the weight formerly held up by the partitions.”

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Dec. 15, 1937 (pg. 2) https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit https://www.ashburnham-ma.gov/pages/AshburnhamMA_FocusCommMin/2008FocusMin/02-19-2008FocusCommMin%20.pdf

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 6, 2017.

Location Info


S. School St. / Ashley Ct.
Ashburnham, MA

Location notes: Approx. location

Coordinates: 42.609029, -71.932203

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