- City:
- Lincoln, NE
- Site Type:
- Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Nebraska Union building on the UNL campus was constructed as a Public Works federal Administration (PWA) project. The PWA provided a $180,000 grant for the $417,908 project. Construction occurred between Jan. 1937 and Apr. 1938. “The Alumni Association eventually raised enough funds to provide $75,000 to furnish the new building. Both the Daily Nebraskan and the Alumni Association were granted office space in the new student union when it opened on May 4, 1938.”
PWA Docket No. Neb. [W]1278
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 149.
https://unions.unl.edu/about-us (accessed Jul. 2023)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 28, 2023.
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