Wiley G. Clarkson, Architect

Corsicana:  June 1908 to Dec. 1911

Fort Worth: Jan. 1912 to May 5, 1952

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Tuscola, Texas

Tuscola School (Box 1 Job 109)

The following information was found on the Texas State Historical Web Site: 

"...Three years later the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe crossed the Abilene and Southern in the center of the valley, bringing more people and businesses to the crossing. A two-story school building with four classrooms and an auditorium was constructed in 1912.....In 1948–49 the Tuscola Independent School District expanded by adding the Cedar Gap, Ovalo, and Bradshaw schools and changed its name to South Taylor County Independent School District. In 1956 the Lawn schools, previously a separate independent district, also joined. The merger formed a new unit called the Jim Ned Consolidated Independent School District. In 1974 a more modern structure replaced the 1912 school building. The town had a population of 620 in 1991, a post office, a bank, twenty other businesses, five churches, and the high school affiliated with the Jim Ned school district." 

No photos of the original school building of 1912 have been located.  This would have been one of Clarkson's earliest projects after associating with Waller and Field in Jan. 1912.  He had already designed a couple of schools for small ISD's while he was in Corsicana.