- City:
- Sabetha, KS
- Site Type:
- Libraries, Education and Health, Museums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The library in Sabetha, Kansas was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The PWA supplied a $21,375 grant for the project, whose total cost was $43,665. Construction occurred between Dec. 1936 and Jun. 1937.
The building bears no cornerstone and no dedication plaque was on-site as of 2023. However, the building does bear multiple original fixtures.
Per The Belleville Telescop, the library was also home to one of a number of Works Progress Administration (WPA)-established local county museums. The entire top floor of the new library in Sabetha was utilized for one of these WPA museums.
PWA Docket No. [W]1186
Source notes
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 167.
"County Museums by New PWA Project," The Belleville Telescope, May 6, 1937 (pg. 6): https://www.newspapers.com/image/12644534/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 2, 2023.
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