- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Ingersoll Hall is one of the original buildings on the Brooklyn College campus, constructed as part of a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project undertaken during the Great Depression, 1935 t0 1937.
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