- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Roosevelt Hall is one of the five original buildings on the Brooklyn College campus, then serving as the school’s gymnasium. It was built as part of a massive federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project undertaken during the Great Depression, 1935-37. Construction took place ca. 1936.
Unfortunately Brooklyn College intends to demolish Roosevelt Hall. “A recent feasibility study determined that Roosevelt Hall and Roosevelt Hall Extension cannot be transformed into the science facilities envisioned by the 1995 Master Plan Amendment. This project will demolish the Roosevelt Hall buildings and construct a 180,000-square-foot science facility with high-tech instructional laboratories, general-purpose classrooms and support spaces.”
Source notes
C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown. "Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration." (1939).
https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/about/administration/offices/fpcm/departments/capital-budget/requests-17-18/06-Brooklyn.pdf (page 4)
https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/about/history/campus/roosevelt.php
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 11, 2014.
Additional contributions by Emanuel Kingsley.
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Regina Ricci Cystian
“famous libraries of the world” was painted by my Uncle Olindo Mario Ricci. How wonderful to know it was restorded twice.
Regards,
Regina Ricci Cystian