- City:
- Freeville, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- Carl W. Clark
- Contractor:
- J. Dall Jr. Inc.
Description
Freeville Elementary School in Freeville, New York, was the Central Grade School. Construction of the school was enabled by federal Public Works Administration funding (PWA Docket No. NY 1257[-B-D]), which gave a grant of $137,025 to the school district for the project. The project’s total cost was $344,769. Construction began February 1936 and was completed June 1937.
Source notes
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 25.
National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 14: New York State; Folder 1: Schools.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 7, 2014.
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Donna Rogers
My Grandfather (Clayton J. Stetson) helped build this School.