Cleveland Hall (JMU) – Harrisonburg VA

City:
Harrisonburg, VA

Site Type:
Colleges and Universities, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Started:
1935

Completed:
1936

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

James Madison University’s Cleveland Hall, originally known as Junior Hall, was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $83,000 grant and $55,632 loan for the project, whose total cost was $124,352. Construction occurred between Nov. 1935 and Oct. 1936.

PWA Docket No. VA [W]1088

Source notes

Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 120.

https://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebration/major_buildings.shtml (accessed Mar. 29, 2023)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 29, 2023.

Location Info


61 E Grace St.
Harrisonburg, VA 22807

Coordinates: 38.43995, -78.87394

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