- City:
- Reno, NV
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Schools, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Billinghurst Junior High school named after long time Reno superintendent of schools (1908-1935), Benson Dillon Billinghurst had improvements made during the New Deal Era consisting of two new double tennis courts and a rock and cement retaining wall around the school playing fields. The rock walls are there today, but the tennis courts are now basketball courts. The school is no longer there. The site has become part of a large public park in the middle of Reno.
Source notes
Men at Work" federal-City of Reno Relief Program, by John A Cooper Mayor of Reno 1935-1939Site originally submitted by David Kerr on February 28, 2016.
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