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Date added: January 14, 2024; Modified: March 21, 2024
In 1936, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up camp at Pattison State Park in Superior, Wisconsin. Pattison State Park was named for Martin Pattison, a wealthy Superiorite who had purchased the land in 1918 and gave it to the… read more
Date added: February 27, 2024; Modified: March 1, 2024
Eau Claire Senior High School was constructed in 1925-1926 to replace an aging structure on Lake and 4th St. The new high school had extensive basement renovation in the summer of 1938 carried out by the National Youth Administration (NYA),… read more
Date added: November 24, 2016; Modified: December 15, 2023
This historic stone bathhouse was built, along with a municipal swimming pool, for the community of Viroqua, Wisconsin. It was a New Deal project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and its relief workers. The pool was removed in 2014-15,… read more
Date added: November 25, 2013; Modified: October 8, 2023
These three murals by Lester W. Bentley were painted for the former De Pere, Wisconsin post office in 1942. They are now hanging in the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay WI. The murals were painted under the auspices of… read more
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: August 18, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted a project involving gravelling “a road in the town of Stella, from County Trunk C toward Stella lake.”
Date added: August 18, 2023; Modified: August 18, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted a project to improve “the Lake George road from the North Western railroad” in the town of Pelican, Wisconsin. Work started in Dec. 1933.
Date added: August 14, 2023; Modified: August 14, 2023
The gorgeous community center in Pence, Wisconsin, located on the south side of Trezona St. between Maple St. and Cedar St., was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1941. Lake Shore Visitor: “Last year, through a WPA project,… read more
Date added: June 9, 2017; Modified: August 7, 2023
Breese Stevens Field was constructed as a Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) project.
Date added: August 2, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted improvement work on Northern Road in Minocqua, Wisconsin: the CWA “started widening, brushing and filling to establish a grade on Northern road …”
Date added: August 2, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted street widening work in Minocqua, Wisconwin in 1933.
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: November 28, 2012; Modified: July 24, 2023
The historic former Benton School Gymnasium was constructed, in part, as a WPA project. The building now houses a religious organization. WisconsinHistory.org: “A brick gymnasium structure that has a round arched roof. Round recessed arched areas that unite the two… read more
Date added: October 1, 2012; Modified: July 24, 2023
WisconsinHistory.org: “The Herbster Community Center was funded by the Work Progress Administration, a federal agency established in 1935 by President Roosevelt to provide employment for needy workers during the Great Depression. The WPA project at Herbster was developed to utilize… read more
Date added: July 14, 2023; Modified: July 14, 2023
Hatten Park in New London, Wisconsin was developed during the Great Depression and constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). WPA-built structures in the park include Hatten Memorial Stadium, a swimming pool, and stone pillars and walls. It all began… read more