• Museum of the Big Bend - Alpine TX
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed what is now the Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, Texas in 1937. sulross.edu: "Originally constructed in the late 1930s, the Big Bend Memorial Museum served first to house and museum and later as the Student Union Building. In 2002, Emmett and Miriam McCoy donated to SRSU its largest private contribution commitment which launched a fund-raising campaign to renovate and restore the native rock building to once again serve as the home of the Museum of the Big Bend. In honor of these benefactors, the renovated facility is named the Miriam and Emmett McCoy Building." "For...
  • Post Office (former) - Alpine TX
    The historic former post office building in Alpine, Texas was constructed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. According to a plaque the building served as Alpine's post office "from June 24, 1938 to September 2000. In 1998, with the help of Congressman Henry Bonilla, Brewster County was able to acquire the building. After renovation by the County, the building was rededicated to public use on July 4, 2002." The building houses an example of New Deal artwork.
  • Post Office (former) Mural - Alpine TX
    The historic former post office building in Alpine, Texas houses an example of New Deal artwork: "View of Alpine," an oil-on-masonite mural by Jose Moya del Pino. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Sul Ross State University - Alpine TX
    The campus of Sul Ross State University was greatly developed during the 1930s as a result of efforts on the part of several New Deal agencies, including the Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Per the El Paso Herald-Post: A modern state institution of higher learning in the far-western "Big Bend of Texas,” Sul Ross State College faces its 20th anniversary in 1940 with a college plant and campus of first rank among state educational centers Opening of a new $150,000 PWA dormitory for women this year has brought...
  • Sul Ross State University: Kokernot Lodge Theater (former) - Alpine TX
    Among the numerous construction and improvement projects undertaken at Sul Ross State University during the Great Depression was the construction of the original outdoor theater at Kokernot Lodge by the Civil Works Administration (CWA). Per the El Paso Herald-Post: Earliest of relief projects on the campus ,a CWA program o 1934, and one of the most interesting in background is the outdoor theater at Kokernot Lodge, a park site presented to the college in 1929 by the: L. G. Kokernot heirs of Alpine. The stage is of native stone with seating capacity for 1200. It is flanked by dressing rooms and...
  • Sul Ross State University: Lawrence Hall - Alpine TX
    Sul Ross State University, named for former Texas Governor Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross, was founded in 1917. The university built Lawrence Hall, also named after Sul Ross, in 1938 to be a dormitory for 116 female students. The Public Works Administration provided the university a loan of $83,000 and a grant of $67,900 for the construction of the building. In 1996, Lawrence Hall was converted for use as an academic facility, housing the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Per the El Paso Herald-Post in 1939: "On a sunny south slope the new dormitory commands a sweeping view of the rolling...
  • Sul Ross State University: Men's Dormitory and Band Home (demolished) - Alpine TX
    A men's dormitory was one of multiple residence projects constructed at Sul Ross State University as a result of New Deal efforts by way of the Public Works Administration (PWA). The PWA supplied a $36,000 loan and $15,886 grant for the project, whose total cost was $57,406. Construction began in May and ended in December 1935, though the dormitory opened in 1936. Per the El Paso Herald-Post: Men students in Sul Ross are provided with modern housing accommodations in the men’s residence hall completed as a PWA project in 1936 at a cost of $68,000. Like most of the buildings on the...
  • Sul Ross State University: Rock Cottages (demolished) - Alpine TX
    A series of 14 stone cottages, later known as the "rock cottages," was among the multiple residence projects constructed at Sul Ross State University as a result of New Deal efforts by way of the Public Works Administration (PWA). The cottages were built as part of a larger men's dormitory project that was the construction of a larger dormitory and band home. PWA supplied a $36,000 loan and $15,886 grant for the project, whose total cost was $57,406. Construction began in May and ended in December 1935. PWA Docket No. TX 5605. Per the El Paso Herald-Post: Built as a part of...