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Norlin was
completed on time and on budget. It
opened in 1940 at a cost of $500,000 (including new furniture). It cost 28-cents per cubic foot and could
seat 1,500 students and hold 800,000 volumes.
Again, most of the funding was WPA (Works Progress Administration)
money. The intent was that the
building would take care of the campus’ needs for thirty years. That proved optimistic but wasn’t too far
off.
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