- City:
- Norman, OK
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Designer:
- Joseph E. Smay
Description
Richards Hall is a PWA building constructed to house the University of Oklahoma’s zoology and micro-biology department in 1935-37. Designed by Univ of Oklahoma architectural professor Joseph Smay, it includes numerous bas reliefs of aspects of Zoology. It was the first building on the south oval of the campus.
Source notes
Building plaque.Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on June 9, 2013.
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