- City:
- Austin, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Museums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This small building on the grounds of the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas was built by the WPA to house specimens from the Glen Rose Dinosaur Trackway.
The tracks were removed and the building closed in 2004, after experts discovered that roof leakage, improper ventilation, and mold growth were damaging the tracks.
Source notes
https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/vpl/collections/the-works-progress-administration-wpa-collection/
https://books.google.com/books?id=RMxiyfx2PhcC&pg=PT89&lpg=PT89&dq=texas+memorial+museum+austin+wpa&source=bl&ots=pmDpyGTNq3&sig=WgCG7pfaMgyIs6CEv029gaYMf7M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimoeq0r-jQAhUT9WMKHV97AfsQ6AEISDAH#v=onepage&q=texas%20memorial%20museum%20austin%20wpa&f=false
Site originally submitted by Doug Halvorsen & Larry Moore on January 19, 2017.
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