Franklin Parish

ARCHITECTURE:

Franklin Parish-Winnsboro. 

Post Office, 513 Prairie Street (mural painted in 1939 using WPA funds).
Architect:  Louis Simon.
Supervising Engineer:  Neal A. Melck
Completed: 1936.  Cost:  unknown.
Historian’s Note:  Part of Winnsboro Commercial Historic District established in 1982 (District #82002774).  Mural painted in 1939 using funds from the Works Progress Administration.
Sources:  Information from John T. Womble, architect with pictures from Paul P. Price, Jr. Collection, Winnsboro, LA.
1930s Images:  6 pics of 1936 construction.

Gymnasium and Classroom Addition building, (two projects) Winnsboro High School, 1310 Warren Street (now Winnsboro Elementary School).
Architects:  Neild, Somdal, & Neild.
Builder:  C.H. Treadwell.
Completed: 1938.  Cost: $161,205 (two projects).
Historian’s Note:  Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, (Public Works Administration) Project No. LA-1172 F.
Sources:  Somdal & Associates, picture from John W.  Womble, architect.
1930s Images:  1 elevation blueprint; 1 aerial picture showing 1938 gym / classroom buildings on larger campus.

Winnsboro High School, 1310 Warren Street (now Winnsboro Elementary School).
Architects:  John W. Baker.
Completed: 1939.  Cost: $147,513.

ELDER:

Samuel Lee

I can’t say we suffered. Daddy had a cousin that came in here from New Orleans and they were sitting out on the porch and I was graduating from high school that year, it was 1935. And this cousin of his asked me, said “Ed, whatcha gonna do when you finish high school?” And I said, “Well, I guess I’ll go to a commercial college and study bookkeepin’.” And Daddy spoke up and said “No, he’s goin’ to college.” And that was the first time it had ever been mentioned. The day that he carried me over there to enter college was the day Huey Long got shot in Baton Rouge. Daddy said, “What do you want to do” and I said, “oh, I don’ know. And he said “Well, I always wanted to be a lawyer, how ‘bout that?” “Awright, sounds awright.” And that’s the way it was.