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Date added: March 25, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out general improvements around the city of Arcata, California, during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Three separate projects were approved in 1937 and 1939 for street work, new water lines and new sewers…. read more
Date added: March 25, 2023
Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly California State University Humboldt) began as Humboldt Teachers’ (or Normal) College in 1913 and moved to its present location on a hill northeast of Arcata, California, in 1921. Founders’ Hall was built at the top of… read more
Date added: March 25, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed a municipal baseball park in Arcata, California, just north of the City Hall. The work was first approved in 1936, finalized in 1937 and then completed in 1938 (WPA funding was greatly reduced in… read more
Date added: March 24, 2023
The Works Progress Administration built a foot bridge between 1937 and 1938 in Stony Brook Park in Newark NY.
Date added: March 23, 2023
Built in 1937 to re-start a floundering city library system, to be staffed by Works Progress Administration librarians. Building continued to serve as the library until the 1960s. Currently in private ownership. Built of rusticated sandstone and unusual in the… read more
Date added: March 23, 2023
The Works Progress Administration built the spillway at the Elm Lake Dam in Frederick SD between 1936 and 1938. The dam at Elm Lake was originally built both to provide a recreation destination and to create a water source for… read more
Date added: March 23, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did the initial development of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in the 1930s. The area where the CCC did its work is along state highway 199, just west of the village of Hiouchi and a… read more
Date added: March 23, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did the initial development of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in the 1930s. The major CCC contribution was the Jedediah Smith campground, which is just off state highway 199 west of the village of Hiouchi…. read more
Date added: March 23, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) developed recreational facilities for Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, near Crescent City, California. Del Norte Park was one of the newly-formed State Park Commission’s first acquisitions c. 1930. According to Engbeck, “CCC Company… read more
Date added: March 22, 2023
Monongalia High School was a school for black students in Westover, WV. It was built by the WPA in 1938. See the Clio entry: Admin, Clio and Zachery Cowsert. “Monongalia High School (1938-1954).”
Date added: March 22, 2023
Bonding ($36,000) for a new San Juan courthouse was put a successful vote in February 1920 after citizens realized that their neighboring county (Grand) was building a large new courthouse. Construction in Monticello began soon thereafter, and the courthouse was… read more
Date added: March 22, 2023
Construction on this Public Works Administration (PWA) funded building took place in 1934 as an addition to the town’s high school (built in 1911). While retaining the New Deal era gymnasium, the current Lava Elementary School structure replaced the high… read more
Date added: March 20, 2023
In 1934, with Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) funding, Sargent Johnson created an organ screen for the California School for the Blind in Berkeley. Today, the organ screen—a 22-foot-long redwood relief of musicians, animals, birds, and plants—is located at… read more
Date added: March 20, 2023
In 1938, the U.S. Treasury Department funded the construction of a post office in Laguna Beach, CA. “The small, Mediterranean building served as a post office for only a few years due to a bad location and access problems for… read more
Date added: March 19, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did the initial development work at Point Lobos State Reserve in the late 1930s. The CCC enrollees worked out of a camp at Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park Because Point Lobos is meant to guard the… read more