- City:
- Syracuse, KS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1937
- Designers:
- C. F. Boucher, H. G. Overend
- Contractor:
- Frank E. Blaser
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Designed by Overend and Boucher of Wichita, the historic Hamilton County Courthouse in Syracuse, Kansas was constructed in 1937 as a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (a.k.a. Public Works Administration—PWA) project, one of several P.W.A. county courthouses in Kansas.
The P.W.A. supplied a $29,250 grant for the project, whose total cost was $65,007.
Courthouses.co: “The building faces west and is a rectangular two story buff colored brick and concrete structure. On the west front is white colored stone trim with trim around the entrance.”
P.W.A. Docket No. Kansas 1258-D
Source notes
Cornerstone
National Archives: 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 167.
https://www.courthouses.co/us-states/h-l/kansas/hamilton-county/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 3, 2018.
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