Wyandotte County Lake Park: Outlet Tower – Kansas City KS

City:
Kansas City, KS

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The outlet tower associated with the Wyandotte County Lake dam is one of numerous Works Progress Administration (WPA) structures constructed in the park.

Dave McDermott writes: “In contract to the other original park buildings, the tower is built of smooth concrete, in an efficient, modernist style, with none of the rustic attributes seen elsewhere in the park.”

Source notes

https://www.kshs.org/preserve/pdfs/wyandottelakepark_survey2009.pdf

Landscapes of Wyandotte County Lake Park, by Dave McDermott, 2022

Site originally submitted by Erin Morrison, Dave McDermott, and Evan Kalish on August 6, 2023.

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