University of Arkansas: Chemistry Building – Fayetteville AR

City:
Fayetteville, AR

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools, Colleges and Universities

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

Designer:
Wittenberg and Delony - Architect

Description

"Although there was already a chemistry building on campus, by 1925 it had become too small. There were plans to build a new building by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1927, and was scheduled to be built in 1931. However, the Great Depression delayed these plans.

In January 1934, $1,165,000 was made available for the construction of both a new chemistry building and Vol Walker Library. These funds came from the Public Works Administration, and not the Arkansas legislature.

Opened in December 1935, the building housed the chemistry, zoology, geology, philosophy, and psychology departments. Eventually, the growing University forced all of these departments elsewhere except for chemistry. In 1992, the University added another chemistry building adjacent to this one, connected with a skywalk."

Source notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Arkansas_Chemistry_Building

Location Info


University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Location notes:

Coordinates: 36.067098, -94.17569

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