- City:
- Provo, UT
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Education and Health, Hospitals and Clinics
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) made extensive improvements to the Utah State Hospital for the mentally handicapped in 1936-37. WPA workers constructed a Recreation Center (now the Castle Amphitheater) and a Superintendent’s Residence (now the Hospital Museum), as well as remodeling the Central Administration Building, upgrading the heating plant, and doing maintenance work on the 320-acre grounds of the hospital.
The former Central Administration Building was a large Victorian structure and apparently the WPA renovation work included removal of gothic spires from the old building. Unfortunately, that historic building has been demolished and replaced by a modern administration building of less interest.
Source notes
Utah State Historical Office Site Information Form
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 24, 2016.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.
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Parker Sackewitz
Per aerial imagery, the historic main building was torn down sometime between 1972 and 1979