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Date added: December 4, 2023
The Works progress Administration made improvements to Watkins Park in Nashville TN. It is located Across 17th Ave N from the Public Works Administration-funded former Pearl High School.
Date added: August 3, 2023; Modified: October 6, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a bandshell ca. 1939 at Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, “to the right of the present structure.” That structure, which Living New Deal believes served between 1937 and 1963, has since been demolished and… read more
Date added: August 9, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the entrance steps at the northeast entrance to Percy Warner Park in Nashville, Tennessee, at Belle Meade Blvd. “Sumner Trails Chapter of Tennessee Trails will lead a 3.5 mile loop hike on the Warner… read more
Date added: April 23, 2015; Modified: August 9, 2023
“Now a standard Nashville tradition, Iroquois Steeplechase traces roots back to 1936, when Marcellus Frost suggested a racecourse to take over a piece of Warner Parks. Mason Houghland, master of the Hillsboro Hounds, along with foxhunter Con. Thompson Ball, and… read more
Date added: January 12, 2014; Modified: August 3, 2023
One-story, brick, H-shaped building with tile roof. This building was originally constructed by the Works Progress Administration as the swimming pool and bathhouse for Nashville’s Centennial Park. The swimming pool and bathhouse were closed during the Civil Rights movement as… read more
Date added: August 3, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a recreation building at Elizabeth Park in Nashville, Tennessee. The building now serves as a senior citizen center.
Date added: December 27, 2014; Modified: July 26, 2023
This New Deal post office is a one-story brick Colonial Revival building, rectangular in shape, on raised basement. Limestone pilasters with Doric capitals surround windows and door in center of facade. Interior of the building is largely intact, including original… read more
Date added: September 13, 2015; Modified: July 26, 2023
Nashville’s former main post office was built in 1933-34 by the Treasury Department’s Office of Construction (later the Office of Procurement). The enormous structure, filling a city block, was constructed in a record 18 months. The design by architects Marr… read more
Date added: July 18, 2022; Modified: July 18, 2022
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted an improvement project at Nashville National Cemetery, providing work for about 35 laborers.
Date added: April 13, 2015; Modified: March 3, 2022
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provide funding for the construction of Cameron Middle School in South Nashville, an historically African American school in what was then a fully segregated city. It was one of many PWA grants for Black schools… read more
Date added: January 11, 2015; Modified: March 1, 2022
The former Municipal Public Works Garage Industrial District is comprised of six single-story, brick buildings built c. 1940. The garages are on the west bank of the Cumberland River, in Nashville. Buildings 1 through 4 run lengthwise northwest to southeast… read more
Date added: December 17, 2014; Modified: March 1, 2022
The New Deal did a great deal of work restoring and improving historic battlefields around the country in the 1930s. As part of this effort, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) restored Fort Negley in 1937-38. This was an important Confederate… read more
Date added: December 17, 2014; Modified: March 1, 2022
Tennessee State University was established in 1909 as Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College, a land-grant college. It is the only state-funded historically Black college or university in Tennessee. The New Deal helped a great deal to build up the… read more
Date added: December 17, 2014; Modified: March 1, 2022
Presently known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet High School, Nashville’s historic Pearl High School was built in 1936-37 with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Pearl High School was built expressly to serve Nashville’s African American community (which was… read more
Date added: January 16, 2012; Modified: March 1, 2022
The Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for construction of Tennessee’s Supreme Court building in 1937-38. The state’s highest court had not previously had its own building, having been housed in the state capitol. The structure also contains the…. Short and… read more