- City:
- Glen Cove, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
The PWA built the east wing of the Robert M. Finley middle school.
"The Robert M. Finley Middle School, serving students in grades six through eight, is made up of several buildings: the west wing, built in 1910 and renovated in 1989; the east wing, built in 1938; and the Unified Arts Center/Media Center and gymnasium, built in 1975."
(https://www.glencove.k12.ny.us)
"This building replaces an old frame high school built in 1893.
Among the rooms on the first floor are 14 classrooms, a gymnasium, auditorium, offices, music room, and wood and metal workrooms. The second floor has two art rooms, two men teachers' rooms, seven classrooms, a study, lunch room, kitchen, workroom, library, study hall, student activity room, laboratories, and domestic science room.
The building is fireproof. The interior walls are cinder concrete block. The roof framing is of bar joists, covered with 4-inch gypsum plank.
The project was completed in June 1939 at a construction cost of $716,131 and a project cost of $823,342."
(Short and Brown)
Source notes
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939). https://www.glencove.k12.ny.us/schools/middle_school_aboutSite Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $823,342.00 |
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Lawerence Carroll
I have worked at Robert Finley Middle School since 1995. I would love more information on the buildings if you have.