Modern Federal · Universities

Artist Chas Fagan's statue of onetime American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969, outside the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, home to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana

West Lafayette · 1850–1939

Artist Chas Fagan's statue of onetime American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969, outside the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, home to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, West Lafayette, 1850–1939
Artist Chas Fagan's statue of onetime American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969, outside the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, home to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, West Lafayette, 1850–1939. Universities — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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