- City:
- Charleston, WV
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration repaired and painted the Thomas Jefferson High School in Charleston. The school is located at the corner of Quarrier and Morris Streets. When a new Charleston High was built about three blocks away, the old one was renamed Thomas Jefferson Junior High School. Like many schools in the area, the Thomas Jefferson High might have operated initially as a high school and later became a junior high or middle school.
In 1998 the Virginia State Legislature authorized the sale of the land and the three-story brick structure that was the former Thomas Jefferson High School.
The featured historic photographs of Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson are from a display at the Kanawha County Schools Board of Education Building on Elizabeth Street, Charleston, West Virginia. Photographs dates are unknown.
Source notes
48 WPA Projects Completed in West Va., Charleston Gazette, April 26, 1936, p. 11.
HB 4563 (1998 Session) authorizing the sale of the land: (https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4563%20INTR.htm&yr=1998&sesstype=RS&i=4563), accessed February 26, 2018.
Charleston High School: (https://theclio.com/web/entry?id=6932), accessed February 26, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on February 26, 2018.
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Linda K Hunter
Is this school still in existence? I cannot find anything concerning it. I attended this school from 1952 – 1955..