This collection consists of 8 boxes and contains the records of the R.F.C. And the P.W.A. construction projects on the Arkansas State Teachers College campus during the depression years of the 1930’s. H. L. McAlister, President of ASTC from 1930-1941, started the procedures necessary to obtain financing for a new girl’s dormitory on the campus. This building was named Mc Alister Hall in honor of H.L. McAlister. Numerous other building projects followed in the following years. Some of these building s were Wingo Hall, Bernard Hall, Commons, Ida Waldren Auditorium, Physical Education Building, Presidents Home. Other projects included utility tunnels, sidewalks, playgrounds, physical plant, and hospital.
This collection contains 5 series:
Series I – McAlister Hall construction records
Series II – Wingo Hall construction records
Series III– Auditorium, Commons, Physical Education, Presidents Home, remodeling Science Building, addition to Doyne Hall and a hospital
Series IV– Bernard Hall
Series V – CWA projects
Box 1
File 1 – Application for Loan, 1933
File 2 – Application Information, 1933
File 3 – Applications Disapproved, 1933
File 4 – Auditors, Jan. 1935
File 5 – Banking Data, Sept. 1933-Oct. 1933
File 6 – Bids – Brochures for Furnishing and Decorations, 1933
File 7 – Bids – Furniture and Hardware, Sept. 1933- Jan. 1934
File 8 – Bills – Arkansas Foundry, 1934
File 9 – Bills – Arkansas Marble and Tile, Jan. 1933-Jan. 1934
File 10- Bills – Big Rock Stone and Materials, Nov. 1933-Dec. 1934
File 11- Bills – Construction, Telephone, Telegraph, Travel, Ect., May 1933-May 1934
File 12- Crane co., Apr. 1934- Oct. 1934
File 13- Bills – Dormitory Sewer, 1934
File 14- Girls Dormitory, May 1933-1935
File 15- Blueprints – A.S.T.C. Campus, Conway, 1933
File 16- Blueprints and Bids – Doyne Hall Remodeling, 1933
File 17- Blueprints – McAlister Hall
File 18- Bond Sale – Dormitory , July 1933-Jan. 1934
File 19- Bond Sale – R.F.C., April 1933-June 1937
File 20- Bonds – Federal Reserve Bank – Jan. 1933-Sept. 1935
File 21- Bonds paid – Sept. 1933-Mar. 1937
File 22- Bonds – Printing, Aug. 1933-Oct. 1933
File 23- Brooks Turner Plumbing Company, June 1934-Oct. 1935
File 24- Brown, E.T. – Estimate, Oct. 1933-Dec. 1933
File 25- Building Construction – Act to Authorize, 1933
File 26- Complaints – Wages, Aug. 1933-Nov. 3, 1933
File 27- Completion Report, June 1934
File 28- Contractors – Burder Co.
File 29- Contracts – List of Bids, June 1933
File 30- Correspondence – Board of Trustees, Sept. 1933-April 1935
File 31- Correspondence Dormitory Bonds, Aug. 1933-Jan. 1934
File 32- Correspondence – Enola School Closing, Dec. 1933-Jan. 1934
File 33- Correspondence – Other College, Apr. 1933-June 1933
File 34- Correspondence – Purchases – Bids – Specifications, April 1934-Feb. 1935
File 35- Correspondence – R.F.C. Boards
File 36- Correspondence – Senator Caraway, May 1933-Dec. 1933
File 37- Correspondence – Wheatley, Archer, Apr. 1933-July 1936
File 38- Correspondence – Wittenberg and Delony, June 1933-Aug. 1934
File 39- Dormitory for Women – recommendation – Apr. 1933
File 40- Engineering and Financial Statements, July 1933-Jan. 1934
End of Box 1
Series I
Box 2
File 1 – Equipment – New Building
File 2 – Federal Emergency relief Administration – Student Project 1934
File 3 – Green Building – Bills, Nov. 1933-Nov. 1934
File 4 – Insurance – McAlister Hall, Dec. 1933-July 1936
File 5 – Interest – Bonds
File 6 – Library Petitions
File 7 – Miscellaneous – McAlister Hall, May-June 1933
File 8 – National recovery Administration – Loan Forms and Bulletins, 1933
File 9 – Operations reports, Aug. 1934-March 1935
File 10- Other Colleges – Loan Applications
File 11- Payments
File 12- Reconstruction Finance Corporation – bonds, Aug. 1933-Feb. 1934
File 13- Resolutions, Board of Trustees, 1933
File 14- Resolutions – Reconstruction Finance Corporation, May-June 1933
File 15- Specifications – Girls Dormitory
File 16- Statement of Annual Receipts and Expenditures, 1929-1933
File 17- Township Map – Conway
File 18- Veteran’s Hospital Proposal – Conway, Ark.
End of Box 2
Box 1
File 1 – Application for Loan – Wingo Hall, 1933
File 2 – Bank – Federal reserve, May 1935-May 1936
File 3 – Bank First National Conway, Statement Apr. 1934-Sept.1935
File 4 – Bids
File 5 – Bills Paid – Jan 1934-April 1939
File 6 – Board of Trustees, Mar. 1934-May 1934
File 7 – Board of Trustees – Minutes Sept. 1933-Oct. 1934
File 8 – Bond Sale, Apr. 1934-Sept. 1936
File 9 – Bonds and Interest Paid, Feb. 1936-Mar. 1937
File 10- Changes, Aug. 1934-Nov. 1934
File 11- Chapman and Cutter – Bonds, Sept. 1933-Sept. 1935
File 12- Completion – dormitory, Oct. 23, 1934
File 13- Contracts, Sept. 1933-Oct. 1934
File 14- Contractor – Nov. 1934-Dec. 1935
File 15- Controversy on the Naming of Apartment Dormitory Sept.-Nov. 1934
File 16- Correspondence – Administrator PAW. A. Jan. 1934-March 1935
File 17- Correspondence – Application Conditions
File 18- Correspondence – Frank McAlister, May 1933-June 1935
File 19- Correspondence – Furniture, June 1935
File 20- Correspondence – Government Officials and Others
File 21- Correspondence – Senator Hattie Caraway
File 22- Senator Joe T. Robinson
File 23- Correspondence – Terry, D.D.
File 24- Correspondence – Wheatley, Archer (Attorney)
File 25- Correspondence – Wittenberg and Delony
End of Box 1
Series II
Box 2
File 1 – Dedication – first PWA Project in Arkansas
File 2 – Engineering and financial Statements, May-Oct. 1934
File 3 – Equipment – Apartment Dormitory, Apr. 1934- May 1935
File 4 – finances – Docket 964, May 1936-Aug. 1934
File 5 – Grant Requisition, Dec 1934- Aug. 1935
File 6 – Inspector – P.W.A., Oct. 1934
File 7 – Insurance – Apartment Dormitory, July 1934- Mar. 1937
File 8 – Interest
File 9 – Loan agreement Between A.S.T.C. and United States
File 10- Loan Application, Jan. 1934- Feb. 1934
File 11- National Inventory of Works Projects
File 12- Requisitions – Sept. 1933- Sept. 1934
File 13- Sidewalks – Drains – Columns – Incinerator Project March 1935
File 14- Specifications – Apartment Dormitory, Apr. 1934
File 15- Specifications – Drainage, Landscaping and Sidewalks
File 16- Specifications – Furniture – apartment dormitory
File 17- Specifications -Wiring – Apartment Dormitory
File 18- State Engineer, Apr.-Oct. 1934
File 19- Specifications – Wiring – Apartment Dormitory
File 18- State Engineer, Apr. 1934- Oct. 1934
File 19- Specification – Plumbing, Heating, and Ventilation, Apartment Dormitory
File 20- Utility charges for A.S.T.C. 1929-1934
End of Box 2
Series III– Doyne Hall Annex., Hospital, Old Gym, Presidents Home
Box 1
File 1 – Act establishing Arkansas State Normal School
File 2 – Advertising – Bids, Dec. 1935- July 1936
File 3 – Allaire – Acting State director, Dec. 1935- Sept. 1937
File 4 – Application for Loan and Grant, July 1935
File 5 – Application Forms
File 6 – Audit – final, June 30, 1937
File 7 – Auditorium – Jan 1936- Sept. 1937
File 8 – Bank – First National
File 9 – Blueprints – Presidents Home
File 10- board of Trustees Resolutions, July 1935
File 11- Bonds, Dec. 1935- Apr. 1937
File 12- Changes, Jan. 1936 – Sept. 1937
File 13- Commercial National Bank, May 1936- Mar. 1937
File 14- Complaints, Nov. 1936- Apr. 1938
File 15- Completion File, July 1936- July 1937
File 16- Contractor Information, Aug. 1936- Aug. 1937
File 17- Contracts, Dec. 1935- Apr. 1936
File 18- Correspondence – Archer Wheatley, Attorney, Aug. 1935- June 1936
File 19- Correspondence – Board of Trustees, Dec. 1935
File 20- Correspondence – Senator Hattie Caraway ,Jan 1936- Sept.1937
File 21- Correspondence – Senator Joe T. Robinson, Sept. 1935
File 22- Correspondence-Wittenberg and Delony, Sept. 1935- Feb. 1940
File 23- Engineer Examiner, June 1936
File 24- Equipment – Doyne Hall – Annex, Jan 1936- June 1937
File 25- Estimates, May 1936- Feb. 1936
File 26- Final Settlement
End of Box 1
Series III
Box 2
File 1 – Grant Requisition, Dec. 1935-Oct. 1937
File 2 – Gymnasium, Feb.-Nov. 1937
File 3 – Hospital – Blueprint Information, Dec. 1935-Mar. 1936
File 4 – Insurance – buildings Jan-Oct. 1937
File 5 – Interest, May 1937
File 6 – Keys – Administration Bldg. – Auditorium – Physical Education
File 7 – Miscellaneous , June 1935-June 1936
File 8 – Payments, July 1936-July 1937
File 9 – Periodical Estimate for Partial Payment, Mar. 1936-July 1937
File 10 – Posey and Edwards, Sept.-Dec. 1937
File 11 – Presidents’ Home Abstract Information
File 12 – Presidents’ Home – furniture and Equipment
File 13 – Presidents’ Home – Lot appraisal and Deed
File 14 – Resident Engineer, May 1936-June 1937
File 15 – Science Building Remodeling, Feb. 1936-Sept. 1937
File 16 – Specifications – Equipment
File 17 – Specifications – Footings, Foundations, Boy’s Dorm
File 18 – Telephone, May 1936-Apr. 1937
File 19 – Wittenberg and Delony – Payments Contractors, July 1936-1937
File 20 – Work Order, May 25, 1936
End Box 2
Box 1
File 1 – Application, June 14, 1938
File 2 – Application disapproved, Sept. 1938-Feb. 1939
File 3 – Bank – Union National
File 4 – Bernard Hall – Keys
File 5 – Bernard Hall – Naming
File 6 – Bid Information – March , 1939
File 7 – Board of Trustees Resolutions
File 8 – Bonds – Interest Refunds
File 9 – Bonds – Printing, Dec. 1938- Feb. 1939
File 10- Bonds Sale
File 11- Change Orders, Feb. 1939- Sept. 1939
File 12- Commons Building, Sept. 1939- Nov. 1939
File 13- Completion Reports, Feb. 1939- Dec. 1939
File 14- Construction Account – Union National Bank, Apr. 1939- Dec. 1939
File 15- Contract – Attorney Archer Weatley, July 1935
File 16- Contractors, March 1939- Apr. 1939
File 17- Contracts, Dec. 1938- Mar. 1939
File 18- Correspondence – Banks, Jan. 1939- Dec. 1939
File 19- Correspondence – Public Works Administrator, May 1939- Feb. 1939
File 20- Correspondence Senators and Representatives, Aug. 1938- Mar. 1939
File 21- Correspondence – Wheatley, Archer, May 1938- July 1939
File 22- Correspondence – Wittenburg and Delony, May 1938- Aug. 1941
File 23- Detailed estimate, Kelbur Air Conditioning Company, Apr. 1939
File 24- Equipment – Complaints, May 1939- July 1940
File 25- Equipment Guarantee
File 26- First National Bank construction Account
File 27- Grant Payments, Jan. 1939- Jan. 1940
File 28- I. K. Electric Company
File 29- Insurance June 1939- Oct. 1939
File 30- Keblur Air Conditioning company, Sept. 1939- Mar. 1940
File 31- KREBS Brothers Supply Co., Dec. 1939- Jan. 1940
File 32- Land right of Way and Easements, May 1939
File 33- Matron for Dormitory, May 1939
File 34- Miscellaneous
File 35- Offer and Exceptance – Board of Directors, Dec. 14, 1939
File 36- Payments, Feb. 1939- Dec. 1939
File 37- Peterson, William – Contractor
File 38- Plumbing – Turner McCoy Plumbing company
File 39- Rules and Regulations, Oct. 1939- Jan 1940
File 40- State Comptroller
File 41- Student Financial Aid
File 42- Supplies and Equipment
File 43- Westmoreland Furniture Co., Aug. 1939- March 1940
File 44- Work Order, Dec. 1939- March 1939
End of Box 1
Box 1
File 1 – Andrews, J.H. – State Emergency Relief Commission
File 2 – Applications For Work Not Accepted, Oct. 1933- Feb. 1934
File 3 – Applications to Civil Works Administration, Nov. 1933
File 4 – Armory – Painting and Repair, Nov. 1933- Apr. 1934
File 5 – C.W.A – General
File 6 – Crane Company – Valves and Fittings
File 7 – Home Economics Building – C.W.A.
File 8 – Materials – C.W.A., Jan. 1934- Apr. 1934
File 9 – Nurses, Dec. 1933- Jan. 1934
File 10- Positions offered to students, Sept. 1933- Mar. 1934
File 11- Project No. 1 – Playground
File 12- Project No. 2 – Tunnel, Nov. 1933- Mar. 1934
File 13- Project No. 3 – Repairs to Buildings
File 14- Projects not Presented
File 15- Student Workers
File 16- Transfers on Projects, Jan. 1934
File 17- Work for Women, Dec. 1933- Jan. 1934
File 18- Work reports – C.W.A Nov. 1933- Mar. 1934
File 19- Survey Report – “Public Building: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies between the year 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration” by C. W. Short – Public Works Administration and R. Stanley-Brown, Public Building Administration
End of Box 1
End of Collection