Howard University: Chemistry Building - Washington DC

State:: WASHINGTON-DC
Site Type:: Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
Started:: 1937
Completed:: 1938
Designers:: Albert Cassell, k
Quality of Information:: Moderate
Marked:: Unknown
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided $1,018,811 for a chemistry building at Howard University. It was one of four buildings funded by PWA on the campus, including the Founders Library, built c. 1937-38.

The chemistry building was built in brick Georgian style, with limestone trim. It was almost surely designed by Albert I. Cassell, an African American architect who did several of the buildings at Howard.

It still serves as the home of the Department of Chemistry.

Source notes

Logan, Rayford Whittingham. 1969. Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967. New York: New York University Press.

Short, C. W. and R. Stanley-Brown, 1939. 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. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on May 31, 2012.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.