New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1937
Completed: 1941
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Description
The concrete structure football stadium was begun in 1937 with a capacity for 18,000 (Sansing) or 24,000 (Oxford Campus and University Buildings). The new stadium was proposed as a WPA project in 1936, and completed in 1941. The west side was completed in 1938 (Walton).
Source notes
Oxford Campus and University Buildings. Retrieved from catalog.olemiss/edu/university/buildings. Sansing, D. S. (1999). The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History. Jackson, MS: University Press. Walton, G. W. (2008). The University of Mississippi: A Pictorial History. Nashville, TN: Booksmith Group.
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on February 8, 2014.
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