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Date added: May 18, 2022; Modified: May 24, 2022
Located at the southeast corner of Fourteenth Street and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside, California is the Juan Bautista De Anza statue, created by Sherry Peticolas with WPA support. The Riverside Art Association, which sponsored the project, donated $5,000 and the… read more
Date added: October 27, 2014; Modified: May 20, 2020
3.5 miles of street were graded and paved under a New Deal federal grant of $115,000.
Date added: March 15, 2020; Modified: March 15, 2020
A $40,000 building was built at Fremont Elementary School under the WPA, the most extensive work done on any Riverside school. In the field of education, WPA relief was limited to repair and construction work. The WPA did work on… read more
Date added: March 9, 2020
Along Main Street, between 1st and Poplar exist a small number of concrete curb stops located at asphalted, angled parking stalls that flow directly from the roadway heading north. These curb stops were part of a WPA street improvement project… read more
Date added: November 21, 2010; Modified: May 30, 2019
Rex Brandt was commissioned by the PWAP to paint five murals for Chemawa Junior High School in Riverside, CA. At the time, Brandt was a student at Riverside Community College. When the school was remodeled in 1973, the murals were… read more
Date added: November 14, 2010; Modified: January 17, 2015
New Deal high school addition in Corona, CA.
Date added: June 11, 2010
From the WPA verso below: "March Field, Riverside, where is situated the headquarters of the Fourth Air Force of the General Headquarters Air Corps, U.S. Army; Major General Jacob E. Fickel, commanding. This field first in the southwest in area… read more