- City:
- Spencer, IN
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety, Armories
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Jacob Edwin Kopf
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1939, the Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Owen County Gymnastics center located in a former National Guard Armory in Spencer IN.
Source notes
US DOD study: Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009,
https://denix.osd.mil/cr/archives/historic/historic-structures-districts-and-landscapes-historic-contexts-archives/report-part-4/, lists WPA improvements to the Spencer Armory, O.P. No. 65‐52‐2372 ($55,000), but the plaque on-site credits PWA.
"State Grants 3 Million for PWA Projects", Indianapolis Times, 8/25/1938, p1c3, lists a state matching appropriation for the Spencer Armory (Hoosier State Chronicles, newspapers.library.in.gov, accessed 12/22/2023)
"Army to Camp Near Spencer on August 18", The Daily Banner, Greencastle, IN, 8/9/1941, p1c3, describes plans for the Spencer Armory to provide showers for 6,500 troops on a planned maneuver that Summer.
Plaque on site.
Site originally submitted by Doug Logan on December 24, 2023.
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