- City:
- Seattle, WA
- Site Type:
- Libraries, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out maintenance work on the Old Central Public Library in 1935, as well as helping with clerical tasks.
That library building had been funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1906. It was replaced in 1960 and then replaced again in 2004 by the current asymetrical, cantilevered structure with its striking diagonal metal and glass grid, designed by Rem Koolhaas.
Source notes
https://www.historylink.org/File/9869
https://www.spl.org/hours-and-locations/central-library/central-library-highlights
Site originally submitted by Douglass Halvorsen on October 16, 2017.
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