FEDERAL EMERGENCY
ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HAROLD L. ICKES
ADMINISTRATOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
FRANKLIN SCHOOL
1939
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=The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works was renamed the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1935 and shut down in 1944. PWA was part of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" of 1933. PWA was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression. It built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools. Washington State College's/University’s old Rogers (football, track & field) Field, in Pullman, Washington was reconstructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds in 1936. Predecessor of WSU's Martin (football) Stadium (at least as of 4/19/2018) was Rogers Field. The "Rogers Field" name lives on in WSU football practice fields adjacent to Martin Stadium.
=The newer part of the second Franklin School (now Pioneer Center) on Dexter Street on Pioneer Hill in Pullman was an added in 1957. The first Franklin School was on a different part of the second Franklin School (now Pioneer Center) property. The current (at least as of 4/19/2018) /third Franklin School is on Klemgard Street on Pioneer Hill.
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