- City:
- Admire, KS
- Site Type:
- Sanitation and Water Disposal, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a substantial number of privies in Admire, Kansas. According to The Hutchinson News, Admire had “more privies built within its limits than any other city in the country,” on a per capita basis.
“There have been enough of them to accommodate the entire community without crowding. They have been things of beauty as well as utility, neatly painted and tastefully trimmed with stars and moons carved in their doors. Erected on heavy concrete foundations, they have been built for the ages.”
In fall 1937 men using horses and ropes conducted a prank in which most of the privies were destroyed.
Source notes
"Admire's Outrage," The Hutchinson News, Nov. 6, 1937 (pg. 4): https://www.newspapers.com/image/8298690/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 6, 2023.
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