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Date added: March 13, 2013; Modified: July 11, 2023
Kansas City’s Southeast High School was constructed as part of a New Deal project during the Great Depression. The Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied a grant of $500,000 toward the construction of multiple school buildings, for which construction occurred between… read more
Date added: March 13, 2013; Modified: July 11, 2023
The swimming pool in Kansas City’s Swope Park was built in 1941-1942 as a Work Projects Administration (WPA) project, “sponsored by the City of Kansas City. James D. Marshall and M. Dwight Brown, architects and engineers, developed the plans for… read more
Date added: October 8, 2018; Modified: July 11, 2023
Now known as the National WWI Museum and Memorial, what was then the Liberty Memorial was the recipient of efforts on the part of multiple New Deal agencies. National Register of Historic Places nomination form: Numerous small-scale features are located throughout… read more
Date added: March 13, 2013; Modified: June 5, 2023
Pictured is some of the remaining original paving installed by the WPA along Brush Creek as a flood control project in 1935. The project has a controversial history due to its relation to political machine boss Tom Pendergast’s Concrete Company…. read more
Date added: July 20, 2015; Modified: May 31, 2023
R. J. Delano High School was completed in 1939 with funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA), after a design by the architectural firm of Keen & Simpson. It is dominated by a tall tower with rock or concrete… read more
Date added: July 21, 2015; Modified: May 31, 2023
The original parts of this school were constructed in 1915 with a cut rock base, brick and cut rock accents. The north side of the school, which faces the paved playground/parking area, is the main entry to the school. In… read more
Date added: August 15, 2021; Modified: May 2, 2022
Walt Disney contributed drawings for WPA murals at the former Benton Grammar School (the school he attended as a boy, later renamed D.A. Holmes Elementary). The murals were completed by WPA artists and delighted children for decades. The school was… read more
Date added: December 5, 2021; Modified: December 5, 2021
The Works Progress Administration built the Delbert J Haff Circle Fountain in Kansas City MO, in 1940.
Date added: December 4, 2021
Blenheim Park was founded in 1922. In the late 1930s, Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers made improvements to the park.
Date added: December 14, 2011; Modified: July 26, 2021
“Kansas City has a well-studied plan for its civic center and the city hall block in area and consists of a rectangular base six stories high from which a tower rises to a height of 429 feet above the basement… read more
Date added: March 11, 2013; Modified: December 15, 2020
This covered market was completed with WPA assistance in 1940. An on-scene information sign describes the market’s history: “January 1940 saw a totally new City Market. As compensation for teh deterioration this area had suffered since the First World War,… read more
Date added: April 17, 2014; Modified: April 11, 2017
Now an apartment building, the old Art Modern United States Courthouse and Post Office in Kansas City housed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri until 1998. The GSA lists significant events in the building’s development: 1935:… read more
Date added: November 6, 2014; Modified: June 14, 2016
Edward Buk Ulreich painted two murals for the Columbia, Missouri, post office in 1937: “Indians Watching Stagecoach in the Distance” and “Pony Express.” He was paid $1,580 for his murals, commissioned by the Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting… read more
Date added: August 17, 2015
When built by the PWA in 1936, Lincoln was the only high school available for black students in this segregated school system. It was built on a hill overlooking the vibrant 18th and Vine entertainment district that boasted some of… read more
Date added: July 20, 2015
This addition to the Switzer School was to the north of the building constructed in 1899 and replaced the original Switzer School which was built in 1882. The addition was completed in 1939 with funds provided by the Public Works… read more