- City:
- Long Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
Three buildings at Long Beach City College’s Liberal Arts Campus (formerly Long Beach Junior College) were constructed with Public Works Administration (PWA) funding in 1935. The original campus was destroyed by the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake.
The physical-science building was “constructed of steel frame and studding, providing approximately 24,000 square feet of usable floor area” (Short & Stanley-Brown, 1939). The building’s status—extant or not—is yet to be confirmed.
The English and language/social-science buildings were also completed with PWA funding at this time.
Source notes
C. W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. Public Buildings: Architecture Under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939 (United States Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1939).
Site Details
Total Cost |
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$225,191 |
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