- City:
- Lexington, KY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
The University of Kentucky’s Student Center, completed 1937, is one of several buildings on the university’s campus constructed during the Great Depression with the help of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) financial assistance. The Student Center has since been expanded.
Source notes
Frank L. McVey and the University of Kentucky: A Progressive President and the Modernization of a Southern University, by Eric Moyen. University of Kentucky Press, 2011. https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19370410.2.45Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 30, 2014.
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