Brooklyn College Heating Plant
Project type: Auxiliary Civic Facilities, Civic Facilities, Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
Completed: 1936
Quality of Information: Moderate
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
The Heating Plant at Brooklyn College is one of the original buildings on the school’s campus, constructed as part of a massive federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project undertaken during the Great Depression. Construction was completed c. 1936.
Source notes
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 11, 2014.
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