- City:
- Shippensburg, PA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
Description
Shippensburg University’s Shearer Hall was constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project in 1937. It was “named in 1941 for Simon S. Shearer, science professor and chair of the Science Department.”
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 35.
"Public Works Administration", a Google Fusion Table by LaDale Winling, edited on March 15, 2011.
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=578234
Shippensburg Building History, accessed Nov. 8, 2017
https://library.ship.edu/ld.php?content_id=22172257
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 8, 2017.
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