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Date added: October 1, 2022
This limestone baseball stadium, built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940, is currently owned by the city of Hays but operated by Fort Hays State University. It has been upgraded several times over the years and is now home… read more
Date added: September 7, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the City Hall and Auditorium in Leoti KS. According to Kansas Historical Society, “The Municipal Auditorium & City Hall located at 201 N 4th Street in Leoti was constructed as a WPA project using… read more
Date added: September 3, 2022
The Auditorium and Gymnasium is an addition to Baldwin High School built by the Works Progress Administration. Construction on the $72,000 project stopped in 1942 when WPA workers were pulled away to work on a site in Lawrence. The gymnasium… read more
Date added: August 29, 2022
Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers built the Bison Arena at the Kansas State Fairgrounds. Other WPA-built improvements included “upgrading the fair’s sewer, rebuilding the Old Mill ride with permanent fireproof concrete, and putting in a reinforced concrete stage and basement… read more
Date added: August 24, 2022
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of the Lenexa Municipal Water System in Lenexa KS. “Establishing a municipal water system occupied the mayor and council for sometime, and it was approved on October 1, 1935. A federal PWA… read more
Date added: August 23, 2022
Big Pool opened in Garden City KS in 1922. The Works Progress Administration added a bath house and a children’s wading pool.
Date added: August 15, 2022
Shelterbelts were natural windbreaks planted to protect land from the dust storms of the 1930s. The Great Plains Shelterbelts spans several states. The agency that started the project is unknown to the Living New Deal, but the project was transferred… read more
Date added: August 4, 2022
The Work Projects Administration (WPA) constructed a distinctive octagonal, concrete water tower in Barnard, Kansas. It was located east of Main Street between Church Ave. and Mills Ave. Conflicting sources state that the water tower was completed in either 1937,… read more
Date added: August 4, 2022
Edgerton Grange Hall was built in 1904. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) remodeled it in the late 1930s, presumably to accommodate electricity.
Date added: August 4, 2022
Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, originally Lawrence Stadium, was a baseball stadium built by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in 1934. Home to minor league baseball and National Baseball Congress tournament for many years. It was demolished in 2018 to make room for… read more
Date added: July 30, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Fowler Swimming Pool and Bathhouse in Fowler KS. Fowler was apparently hard hit by the dust storms of the 1930s, and the construction of a swimming pool would bring not only construction jobs… read more
Date added: July 11, 2022
The Crawford State Park in Farlington KS has a nine hundred fifty acre lake built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The park now includes a monument to CCC workers.
Date added: June 27, 2022
The Works Progress Administration built a grade school in Bison KS. The school in no longer in use.
Date added: June 25, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built Fire Station 7 in Topeka KS. “This station was constructed in 1935 through Works Progress Administration to service the growing Oakland neighborhood, and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad yards, located just a… read more
Date added: June 25, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built Fire Station 7 in Topeka KS. “This station was constructed in 1935 through Works Progress Administration to service the newly expanding areas of western Topeka, including the newly developed Westboro neighborhood located one block… read more