Newport School - Newport, TX
N 33° 28.118 W 098° 00.874
14S E 591566 N 3703675
Located at Gin and School House Roads, the 1939 Newport School building was constructed with help from the WPA, and it still serves Newport as a community center.
Waymark Code: WMZ2HT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2018
Views: 2
The school was designed by Voelcker & Dixon, out of Wichita Falls, whose legacy includes quite a few buildings still with us in Texas, some of them on the National Register of Historic Places. This three classroom schoolhouse was the last in a succession of school buildings in Newport, several of them basic log structures. This ranch-style rock school has a sliding partition that divides two of its three classrooms, creating an auditorium for special events. The Living New Deal website (see Website) notes that the Works Progress Administration funded $5,762 of the approximate $9,000 cost of construction.
Address:
Gin and School House Roads
Newport, TX USA
76230
Web Site: [Web Link]
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