Osmond Laboratory (PSU) – State College PA

City:
State College, PA

Site Type:
Education and Health, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1938

Designer:
Charles Klauder

Description

Pennsylvania State University’s Osmond Laboratory was one of a dozen buildings constructed on the campus during the Great Depression as part of a massive construction project enabled by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The building is still in use today.

Source notes

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 36. "History of University Park Campus"; accessed 11/30/14: https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/upchc/history.html

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 30, 2014.

Location Info


State College, PA

Coordinates: 40.798502, -77.862187

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