- City:
- Wakefield, KS
- Site Type:
- Libraries, Education and Health
- New Deal Agency:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Wakefield Public Library in Wakefield, Kansas in 1938. The library is still in use.
Source notes
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wmA8A9_Wakefield_Library_Wakefield_KS
https://wakefield.lib.nckls.org/history/
Site originally submitted by Barbara Pendleton on May 1, 2022.
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Wava Schweitzer
I was 5 and began my first year of school is this library. Our combined school at the top of our he hill burned to the he ground right before I began. Classes were held in different buildings all over town that year. I loved our library with a full basement and the big warm fireplace our teacher put a fire in on cold winter days. Such a beautiful beginning. This building is still as beautifully clad today as was in the beginning. The rocks were humed out of a farm south of Wakefield-David Wachle. Time moved on and many years later this farm was purchased by Carl Schweitzer my father in law. My husband and I farmed it for many years.