- City:
- Syracuse, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
Syracuse’s old College of Medicine building, now Weiskotten Hall of State University of New York Upstate Medical University, was built during the Great Depression. Its construction was enabled by funds provided by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The PWA supplied a $825,000 loan for the project. The building’s cornerstone was laid by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 29, 1936. The building was dedicated November 22, 1937.
SYR.edu:
“A loan of $825,000 was given to SU for construction of a Basic Sciences building for the College of Medicine by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). In 1949, Syracuse was selected by the State University Board of Trustees as the site for the new Upstate Medical Center. In June 1950 the state assumed the remaining $640,000 of the original construction loan. In exchange, SU donated the land, as well as Yates Castle and its property, to the State for creation of the Upstate Medical Center.”
PWA Docket No. NY W1479.
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 27. https://archives.syr.edu/buildings/medicine3.htmlSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on December 1, 2014.
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