Morehouse Parish-Bastrop.
Gym/auditorium Westside Elementary School (now Morehouse Magnet School), 909 Larch Lane.
Architect: H.H. Land.
Completed: 1938 Cost: $82,291 (includes additions to Eastside Elementary School).
Historian’s Note: Westside and Eastside Elementary Schools were both built in 1927 with both buildings identical and shaped as a “U”. In 1938, a combination gymnasium / auditorium structure was added to the back of each respective elementary school, thus connected the wings of the “U” and creating an inner courtyard.
Sources: Walter Bonner, Morehouse Parish.
1930s Images: 2 pics.
Classroom addition, Bastrop High School.
Architect: H.H. Land (highly probable but not confirmed)
Contractor: McBride Construction Company
Completed: 1931. Cost: $157,000
Historian’s Notes: New “unit” of classrooms were added to the original structure built in 1927. The new wing is composed of two-stories and a basement thus adding fourteen classrooms for a total of 34 in the entire school. The new wing has a built-in bookshelf situated within each classroom. The new addition also includes two new science laboratories, a new library, and a new cafeteria located in the basement that can accommodate 500 students at any one time. The new library features beam ceiling, woodwork trimmed in gum and walls of beautiful shade of textone. The new wing includes built-in student lockers an emerging feature being built in schools of the time. Interesting for its time, each classroom throughout the building is linked to a public address system with the microphone in the principal’s office. The new wing was made possible through the passage of a $250,000 bond issue approved in June 1929.
Sources: Extract, Morehouse Enterprise, Thursday, March 19, 1931 and Walter Bonner, Morehouse Parish.
1930s Images: 1 pic.
