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Date added: May 16, 2023; Modified: August 23, 2023
In 1934, the New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA) loaned the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company—popularly known as the “Milwaukee Road”—$8.6 million (about $194 million in 2022 dollars) for infrastructure improvements and new equipment. The latter included… read more
Date added: March 18, 2015; Modified: July 26, 2023
The historic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Station post office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was constructed in 1938 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.
Date added: January 21, 2022; Modified: January 21, 2022
The Works Progress Administration built Sijan Field in Milwaukee WI in 1937. Today, the facility serves as the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Recreation Division Playfield. It is used for baseball and soccer.
Date added: October 11, 2021; Modified: October 11, 2021
In 1939, the Works Progress Administration built the Lincoln fieldhouse in Lincoln Field, Milwaukee WI.
Date added: July 30, 2018; Modified: August 1, 2018
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built park facilities at the Enderis Playing Field in Milwaukee. One among many parks built and improved by the WPA in Milwaukee, the Enderis Playing field is still in use today. The land, which the… read more
Date added: June 20, 2018; Modified: August 1, 2018
The Granville Town Board voted in 1940 to build a new Town Hall in Granville Center that would house the town offices, an auditorium, and the fire department. Work Projects Administration (WPA) labor built the project. Construction began Oct. 23,… read more
Date added: July 11, 2018; Modified: July 12, 2018
The Works Progress Administration built an entrance gate for the E. W. Luther Elementary School track. A plaque installed on the structure reads: “WPA 1036.” The gate marks the back entrance to the school’s athletic field.
Date added: October 17, 2012; Modified: November 7, 2017
“One of the later WPA projects [in Milwaukee County] was the construction of the Kosciuszko pool and bathhouse. As one of the parks transferred from the city in 1937, the county set out to update the facilities. Plans for the… read more
Date added: May 8, 2017
Milwaukee’s Cherry Street Bridge was constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project in 1940. “The Cherry Street Bridge is a bascule bridge that crosses the Milwaukee River just North of downtown. The 214-foot total length includes a 103-foot draw… read more
Date added: January 14, 2014; Modified: April 11, 2017
A wooden sign marks the site of former CCC Camp Bluemound, Company 2606, which operated in the vicinity from 1933-1942.
Date added: January 22, 2017; Modified: January 23, 2017
Hawthorn Glen is a park and nature and education center administered by the Milwaukee Public Schools recreation division. The twenty-three acre site includes a long curving bluff, ravines, and a deciduous forest, as well as a soccer field, several nature… read more
Date added: February 21, 2012; Modified: October 6, 2016
“The largest Public Works Administration (PWA) project in Wisconsin was construction of the City of Milwaukee Linwood water filtration plant, which employed 1,700 men for a year.” (www4.uwm.edu) “Due to increasing pollution of Lake Michigan the amount of chemicals required… read more
Date added: July 14, 2012; Modified: August 10, 2016
“The magnificent pavilion was built with relief labor in South Shore Park in 1933. It replaced an earlier bathhouse built in 1912. The park is located on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee.” –Milwaukee… read more
Date added: October 15, 2012; Modified: August 10, 2016
“The pool at Silver Spring Park (now McGovern Park) was built by the CWA. The WPA built the new bathhouse.”
Date added: October 27, 2012; Modified: August 10, 2016
“Repairing and painting of buildings, including band shells, bathhouses, pavilions, bridges, residences, service buildings and playground buildings in the following parks…Gordon Park.”