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Fort Peck Indian Boarding School, Employee's Quarters, Southwest corner of Assiniboine Avenue and Riverside Drive, Poplar, Roosevelt County, MT

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Fort Peck Indian Boarding School, Employee's Quarters, Southwest corner of Assiniboine Avenue and Riverside Drive, Poplar, Roosevelt County, MT

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Significance: It is a contributing building to the significance of the proposed Fort Peck Indian Boarding School Historic District. It is one of two buildings within the historic district completed in 1938 under the Public Works Administration (PWA), one of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs. The building is an example of standardized Bureau of Indian Affairs plans for employee housing constructed by PWA funds during the late 1930s at Montana Indian reservations.
Survey number: HABS MT-70-B
Building/structure dates: 1938 Initial Construction

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1938 - 1980
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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