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Date added: October 12, 2023; Modified: October 12, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a sidewalk at West Richmond Avenue and Martina Street (erroneously marked Martino St. in the cement) in Point Richmond, California, in 1940. The WPA date stamp is still quite visible in the old pavement…. read more
Date added: February 20, 2010; Modified: October 12, 2023
An oil on canvas mural, “Richmond – Industrial City,” by Victor Arnautoff was installed in the Richmond Post Office in April 1941. It was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts program. The mural disappeared for years and was only… read more
Date added: September 23, 2023; Modified: September 23, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a sidewalk on Summit Place in Point Richmond, California, in 1939. The WPA date stamp is still quite visible in the old pavement, in front of 343 Summit Place. The WPA undoubtedly built other… read more
Date added: November 22, 2021; Modified: May 16, 2022
The New Deal made major improvements to the former Alvarado Park on the east side of Richmond CA, where Wildcat Creek tumbles out of the East Bay hills. Alvarado Park was transferred by the city of Richmond to the East… read more
Date added: November 22, 2021
The New Deal made major improvements to the former Alvarado Park on the east side of Richmond CA, where Wildcat Creek tumbles out of the East Bay hills. Alvarado Park was transferred by the city of Richmond to the East… read more
Date added: November 22, 2021
The New Deal made major improvements to the former Alvarado Park on the east side of Richmond CA, where Wildcat Creek tumbles out of the East Bay hills. Alvarado Park was transferred by the city of Richmond to the East… read more
Date added: September 26, 2010; Modified: November 22, 2021
The New Deal made major improvements to the former Alvarado Park on the east side of Richmond CA, where Wildcat Creek tumbles out of the East Bay hills. Alvarado Park was transferred by the city of Richmond to the East… read more
Date added: June 11, 2010; Modified: September 12, 2021
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out extensive improvements on Nicholl Park from 1935 to 1938. These included constructing ballfields and tennis courts, adding lighting, landscaping, and drainage and, most unusually, creating a lawn bowling green and a game bird… read more
Date added: March 7, 2019; Modified: March 29, 2019
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built rock retaining walls in Point Richmond, a neighborhood of Richmond CA. The most notable wall is found at 220 Bishop Avenue and was built in 1940. It is six feet high and runs… read more
Date added: August 14, 2011; Modified: March 8, 2019
The post office in the old downtown of Richmond, CA was built by the Treasury Department in 1938. It is an elegant example of Moderne (Art Deco) architecture of the age. Richmond’s downtown, including buildings around the post office, was… read more