- City:
- Atchison, KS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Atchison, Kansas’s Central School was constructed with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $65,000 grant for the project, whose total cost was $173,019. Work started in Oct. 1937 and was completed in Jul. 1938. The former school is now privately owned and slated to become an apartment complex.
PWA Docket No. KS [W]1073
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 167.
"Plans announced for Central School Apartments," Atchison Globe: https://www.atchisonglobenow.com/news/plans-announced-for-central-school-apartments/article_80d6b9f8-d9c0-11eb-b681-0ff36ebade0d.html (Accessed Jul. 25, 2023)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 25, 2023.
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