- City:
- Mariposa, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This Works Progress Administration grammar school building in Mariposa, CA still functions as the local elementary school. The stonework surrounding the school is classic WPA style, and there are still WPA stamps in the cement, marked 1940.
WPA Proj. No. 65-3-2147, $10,644, Oct. 2, 1935, “Complete grammar school, improve grounds. ERA Spa. Mariposa School district.”
WPA Proj. No. 65-3-3148, $270, March 13, 1936, “Cook to prepare and serve hot lunches for undernourished children from families on relief. At the Mariposa Grammar School.”
WPA Proj. No. 650-3-3851, $536, December 14, 1936, “School Improvement”
Source notes
National Archives and Records Administration
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on November 13, 2010.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere.
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