• Bowman Gray Stadium - Winston-Salem NC
    "Bowman Gray Memorial Stadium was built as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project aided by private funds from the Bowman Gray family."
  • Granville Park - Winston-Salem NC
    "West Salem's own Granville Park has the WPA's mark in its majestic gazebo and its artful bridges."
  • Hall of History - Winston-Salem NC
    "The new Hall of History Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been completed. It is a three-story brick structure which cost $32,000." The building was constructed with the assistance of either the federal Works Progress Admininstration (WPA) or the Public Works Administration (PWA); sources vary on the attribution. The building was an "annex" to the Moravian Boys School in Salem. It was demolished in 1985. See https://www.cityofws.org/DocumentCenter/View/3835/049---Boys-School-PDF?bidId= The only notable change to the building was an annex built by the Works Progress Administration in 1937-1938. This annex was demolished in 1985 during a restoration by Old Salem, Inc.
  • Hanes Park - Winston-Salem NC
    "The Works Progress Administration, an agency of the Federal Government, adopted as one of its projects the improvement of Hanes Park, which is a public park and playground owned by the city of Winston-Salem. Within the park is located an elementary school, the high school gymnasium, baseball diamond, a football field, a race track, bridges and walks, and other park improvements. It is used to a large extent as a playground connected with the elementary school and the Richard J. Reynolds High School. The W. P. A. project provided for improvements to the tennis courts and race track, three bridges,...
  • Reynolds Park and Recreation Center - Winston-Salem NC
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped construct Salem-Winston’s Reynolds Park and Recreation Center between 1939 and 1940. “A $300,000 proposed municipal park and recreation center at Winston-Salem, N.C., has received final approval in Washington,” a journalist for Park & Recreation magazine reported. “The development, to be known as Reynolds Park, will be located two miles east of the courthouse square…Within the area will be an 18-hole golf course, a large swimming pool, tennis courts, an athletic field and wooded area for walking and picnicking.” The fruits of this WPA-funded project can still be enjoyed today.
  • Sewers - Winston-Salem NC
    A large sanitary sewer construction project in Winston-Salem was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $259,000 loan and $25,723 grant toward the $258,255 total cost of the project. Work occurred between June 1934 and October 1935. (PWA Docket No. NC 2052)