Throwback Thursday

May 25, 2023 | 150Celebration, News, Throwback Thursday, Alumni
By Staff



Works Progress Administration workers take a lunch break during construction of the Field House — later renamed Memorial Field House — in 1930. A WPA crew of 400 men built the Field House and University Hall in 11 months, with both buildings opening the University’s “new campus” on Bancroft Street in February 1931.

 

Works Progress Administration workers take a lunch break during construction of the Field House — later renamed Memorial Field House — in 1930.