- City:
- Wilderness, MO
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
This Work Projects Administration building was constructed in 1939 as a Wilderness School using local materials. A large rock wall and well also benefited from the skilled masonry of New Deal craftsmen. As of 2014, the building has been repurposed, presently functioning as a Baptist church.
Source notes
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on September 9, 2014.
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Gregg Bruff
Martha Long
Unusual architectural features were used in the construction of the school. Cave stalactites or stalagmites are imbedded at the peak over the front door, atop the chimney, and surrounding the concrete name plate over the front door. The other interesting thing is the use of upside down numeral “2” for the letters “s” in the word Wilderness and School when the concrete was cast. The date is 1935 rather than the 1939 mentioned in the previous information.
I believe my mother and her cousin were some of the first teaches in that school building. Ethel and Lena.