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Date added: March 13, 2024; Modified: April 15, 2024
The Birch Creek Camp was located in Beaverhead County. The ranger station was on Birch Creek, about two miles above the campsite. A group of twenty-five Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers and one officer were first taken to the site… read more
Date added: September 28, 2014; Modified: November 6, 2023
The historic post office in Hamilton, Montana was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in the amount of $100,000. Construction began in 1940 and was completed in 1941. The style of the building is standard design for post offices… read more
Date added: March 20, 2012; Modified: November 6, 2023
The historic post office building in Hamilton, Montana houses an oil-on-canvas mural entitled “Flat Head War Party” by artist Henry Meloy. It is one of only six New Deal murals in Montana post offices. The federal Treasury Department Section of… read more
Date added: October 20, 2023; Modified: October 20, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built an athletic complex for the high schools in Butte, Montana, The complex included a football field, quarter mile running track and tennis courts, which can still be seen in the satellite photo. The football… read more
Date added: January 23, 2014; Modified: October 20, 2023
Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported in early 1937 that several National Youth Administration (NYA) recreation projects had recently been completed around Butte: “winter sports area at Robbers’ Roost, four tennis courts which will be ready for use the next… read more
Date added: January 10, 2014; Modified: October 11, 2023
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant of $360,000 in 1935 for the construction of Butte high school. The total cost of the high school was $930,000 and the project was completed in late 1937. The should be a… read more
Date added: January 12, 2014; Modified: October 8, 2023
The Big Timber Pioneer reported in late 1934 that the Public Works Administration (PWA) approved $181,000 for “improvements and equipment” for what was then known as the Montana Normal College at Dillon. Of that, $100,000 came as a loan and… read more
Date added: October 7, 2023; Modified: October 7, 2023
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided funding for a new high school for Beaverhead County schools in Dillon, Montana, constructed in 1939. The PWA had become a part of the new Federal Works Agency that year.. The design of the… read more
Date added: March 20, 2012; Modified: October 7, 2023
Elizabeth Lochrie painted an oil-on-canvas mural, entitled “News from the States,” which was installed in the Dillon, Montana post office in 1938. The mural was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Lochrie also painted murals for the post… read more
Date added: March 20, 2012; Modified: October 7, 2023
The post office in Dillon, Montana was built by the Treasury Department in 1935. It is still in use and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a New Deal mural inside.
Date added: February 24, 2014; Modified: October 7, 2023
Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported in 1938 that 40 WPA laborers were “doing a $40,000 job of tree painting, landscaping, road oiling, leveling and general beautification” at what was then known as the Montana [State] School of Mines, now… read more
Date added: January 10, 2014; Modified: October 7, 2023
Th PWA granted $320,000 for the construction of a new dormitory at the Montana School of Mines, now known as the Montana Technical campus of the University of Montana. The residence is now known as Prospector Hall. The school’s website… read more
Date added: February 24, 2014; Modified: October 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) did extensive road improvement around Silver Bow County Montana in 1938 (and probably into 1939). WPA employment was vital to the many jobless miners in Butte area. Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported in May… read more
Date added: January 10, 2014; Modified: October 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided labor toward repainting and renovations at the Silver Bow County Courthouse in Butte, Montana. In the course of the restoration work, several murals were discovered beneath earlier paint jobs. The WPA was critical to… read more
Date added: March 19, 2014; Modified: October 7, 2023
The New Deal funded a large Street paving project in Butte, Montana in 1938 (possibly extending into 1939). More than 35 miles of streets, “representing virtually every important thoroughfare in Butte and its immediate vicinity,” were paved, representing the “largest… read more