- City:
- Bloomington, IN
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Works Agency (FWA)
- Completed:
- 1940
- Designer:
- A.M. Strauss
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Physical Science Building (now Swain Hall West) houses Indiana University’s Physics and Astronomy departments. Estimates for building construction began in 1938, and the building was completed in 1940 by the Federal Works Agency (FWA).
Source notes
IU Board of Trustee Minutes: https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/iubot/view?docId=1938-06-09.xml&chunk.id=d1e113&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d1e113&brand=iubot&text1=physical%20science%20building&op1=and&op2=and&field1=text&field2=text&field3=text&startDoc=41# IU Building Information: https://buildinginfo.indiana.edu/DisplayBuildingFG.cfm?BuildingCode=BL027Site originally submitted by Jessica George on November 4, 2015.
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