- City:
- Leavenworth, KS
- Site Type:
- Penal Facilities, Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the former Leavenworth County Jail in Leavenworth, Kansas was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The PWA provided an $59,400 grant for the project, whose total cost was $131,362. Construction started in Nov. 1938 and was completed in Dec. 1939.
The building was located on S 3rd Street just north of the current Justice Center and jail, which replaced it in 2000. The New Deal-era jail was demolished in late 2013.
PWA Docket No. Kan. [X]1422.
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 169.
"Jail demolition begins," Pekin Daily Times, Sept. 4, 2013: https://www.pekintimes.com/story/news/politics/government/2013/09/04/jail-demolition-begins/44298398007/ (accessed Jul. 2023)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 24, 2023.
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