- City:
- Lakin, KS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designers:
- C. F. Boucher, H. G. Overend
- Contractor:
- A. W. Soderberg Construction Co.
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Designed by Overend and Boucher of Wichita, the historic Kearny County Courthouse in Lakin, Kansas was constructed in 1938-9 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 $31,950 grant for the project, whose total cost was $71,067.
P.W.A. Docket No. Kansas 1194-F
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.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 5, 2018.
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