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Baker University: Heating Plant – Baldwin City KS

The New Deal’s Civil Works Administration (CWA) employed 30 men at the end of 1933 constructing a heating plant for Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. The exact location and status of the facility is currently unknown to Living New… read more

High School Auditorium and Gymnasium (Former) – Baldwin City KS

Baldwin City gym-auditorium building, S elevation

The Auditorium and Gymnasium is an addition to Baldwin High School built by the Works Progress Administration. Construction on the $72,000 project stopped in 1942 when WPA workers were pulled away to work on a site in Lawrence. The gymnasium… read more