- City:
- Lawrence, KS
- Site Type:
- Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1941
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Work projects Administration (WPA) worked to construct the Military Science Building at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. “Construction began in spring 1941 on this [WPA] project and was completed by legislative appropriations after the WPA was disbanded.” The building is still in use.
WPA Project No. 165-1-82-153. Cost: $83,732. Sponsor: War Department
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-58).
https://places.ku.edu/buildings/military-science-building (accessed Jul. 26, 2023)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 26, 2023.
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