University of Wyoming: Wyoming Union - Laramie WY

City:: Laramie, WY
Site Type:: Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
Started:: 1937
Completed:: 1939
Designer:: William DuBois

Description

The Wyoming Union [student union] building on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. The P.W.A. provided a $128,250 grant toward the project, whose total cost was $295,955. Construction occurred between Nov. 1937 and Feb. 1939.

PWA Docket No. WY 1059-DS

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 23: Wyoming file; Folder 2: Colleges & Universities.

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 157.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 17, 2017.
Additional contributions by Aubrey Edwards.