- City:
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
WPA crews contributed to expanding Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, now Salt Lake City International. From the Salt Lake City International Airport history site: “At a cost of $52,000, Salt Lake City built an airport administration building that housed a passenger waiting room, mail room, airport manager’s office, lunch room, weather observatory, radio control room and leased office space to airlines. A third runway was also added.” It is unclear if the administration building survives today, but judging from the Salt Lake Tribune’s 2015 photo retrospective, it appears to have been replaced with today’s modern structure.
Source notes
Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 (2006), p. 208 Salt Lake City International Airport History "A Look Back: Salt Lake City's Airport," Salt Lake Tribune, June 26, 2015Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on December 11, 2016.
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