- City:
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
Western Michigan University’s Walwood Hall was constructed during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) grant money (PWA Docket No. [X]1590). The PWA supplied a grant of $128,160; work occurred between 1938 and 1939.
“Western still had no dormitories, so it was decided to build a combination Union building and girls’ dormitory, which was finished by the fall of 1938 and named Walwood Hall. A men’s dormitory, Vandercook Hall, was also built plus a student health and personnel building. Both of these were partly built with Federal money as P.W.A. projects.” (Yearbook)
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 63. Brown and Gold Yearbook - Class of 1954; Western Michigan University (page 12)Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 28, 2014.
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