- City:
- Greensboro, NC
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designer:
- Harry Barton
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Elementary school built in 1935 with funding from the Public Works Administration and Proximity Manufacturing Company for the White Oak New Town mill village community founded by the Cone Mills Corporation, then among the largest denim manufacturers in the world. Still in use as an elementary school today.
Source notes
National Register of Historic Places, Historic Structures Survey Report, April 15, 2019, pp. 28-32 (https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/historic-preservation-office/PDFs/ER_19-0982.pdf), accessed May 2020.
Site originally submitted by John Stehlin on May 17, 2020.
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