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Members of CCC Company 2305 - Yorktown VA

CCC Camp Navy-1 (Former) – Yorktown VA

Date added: July 23, 2022

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Navy-1 was created at Yorktown, Virginia, on November 1, 1935, for the purposes of improving the Naval Mine Depot (a 20-square mile area that is now called “Naval Weapons Station Yorktown”). The camp housed Company… read more

Old Town Hall, Front Royal, VA

Municipal Building (former) – Front Royal VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

The historic former Municipal Building (“Town Hall”) in Front Royal, Virginia was built with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $10,707 grant for the project, whose total cost was $38,235. Construction occurred between… read more

Skyline Middle School, Front Royal, VA

Skyline Middle School – Front Royal VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Also known as Warren County High School, Front Royal’s Skyline Middle School was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project ca. 1940. The building has since been extended. LivingPlaces: “This impressively sited, Classical Revival-style, brick school building stands… read more

Virginia Tech: Smyth Hall – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Virginia Tech’s Smyth Hall, originally known as the Natural Science Building, “was built in 1939 at a cost of $127,650,” and was constructed as part of a larger Public Works Administration (PWA) project on the campus. It was part of… read more

Virginia Tech: Hutcheson Hall – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Virginia Tech’s Hutcheson Hall, originally known as New Agricultural Hall, “was built in 1940 at a cost of $206,000,” and was constructed as part of a larger Public Works Administration (PWA) project on the campus. It was part of a… read more

Virginia Tech: Agnew Hall – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Virginia Tech’s Agnew Hall, originally known as the Home Economics Building, was constructed as a Work Projects Administration (WPA) project and dedicated in 1940. It was part of a broader development of several buildings on its corner of campus that… read more

Virginia Tech: Seitz Hall – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Virginia Tech’s Seitz Hall, originally known as the Agricultural Engineering Building, was constructed as a Work Projects Administration (WPA) project and dedicated in 1940. It was part of a broader development of several buildings on its corner of campus that… read more

Virginia Tech: Owens Hall – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Virginia Tech’s Owens Hall dining facility was constructed as part of a larger Public Works Administration (PWA) project on the campus. VT.edu: “When completed in 1939, Owens Dining Center, which seated 2,240 diners, covered the greatest area of any structure… read more

Virginia Tech: East Campbell Hall – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Virginia Tech’s East Campbell Hall dormitory was constructed as part of a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. Also known as Campbell Hall’s east wing, the structure was constructed in 1940; whereas Main Campbell Hall was built in 1930, prior to… read more

Post Office – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

What is now the Downtown Station post office at 118 North Main Street in Blacksburg, Virginia was constructed in 1935 as the city’s main post office, with Treasury Department funds.

Virginia Tech: Military Building – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Now known as the Military Building, what was originally the utilities building was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project in the mid-1930s. It was one of four buildings on the campus completed as part of a massive… read more

Aerial view of new buildings on Virginia Polytechnic Institute (V.P.I.) campus, 1935

Virginia Tech Development – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

The campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia—or, as it was then known, as Virginia Polytechnic Institute (V.P.I.)—was dramatically developed as part of numerous New Deal projects during the Great Depression. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided multiple rounds of… read more

Virginia Tech: Graduate Life Center – Blacksburg VA

Date added: July 13, 2022

Now known as the Graduate Life Center, what was originally the Faculty Center—a dormitory on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia—was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project in the mid-1930s. It was one of four buildings… read more