- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Education and Health, Colleges and Universities, Auxiliary Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Heating Plant at Brooklyn College is one of the original buildings on the school’s campus, constructed as part of a massive federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project undertaken during the Great Depression. Construction was completed c. 1936.
Source notes
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 11, 2014.
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Regina Ricci Cystian
“famous libraries of the world” was painted by my Uncle Olindo Mario Ricci. How wonderful to know it was restorded twice.
Regards,
Regina Ricci Cystian