- City:
- Newport, RI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In early 1935, PWA crews conducted renovations and improvements to the Henry R. A. Carey School, which dated to 1896. The school closed in 2010, and in 2014 was renovated again as luxury condominiums and renamed the Carey School Residences.
Source notes
Newport Mercury, January 18, 1935, p. 1 Rhode Island Small Business Journal, September 23, 2014Site originally submitted by John Stehlin on November 28, 2016.
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