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Hide Search OptionsDate added: January 15, 2015; Modified: January 15, 2015
“Tech’s development continued in the Fall of 1938 with the announcement that the Board of Regents, with Public Works Administration assistance, would spend $350,000 for the construction of four buildings and an addition to a fifth. Work began on the… read more
Date added: January 15, 2015; Modified: January 15, 2015
“Tech’s development continued in the Fall of 1938 with the announcement that the Board of Regents, with Public Works Administration assistance, would spend $350,000 for the construction of four buildings and an addition to a fifth. … The third building… read more
Date added: January 15, 2015
Georgia Tech’s Stephen C. Hall Building was constructed as the Civil Engineering Building. “Today, the Stephen C. Hall Building houses the Writing and Communication programs at Georgia Tech, as part of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.” “The Federal… read more
Date added: January 15, 2015
“The Works Progress Administration which as we have seen sponsored the Gymnasium for Georgia Tech, was also responsible for adding the third and final addition to the Lyman Hall Chemistry Building. Construction began on a three-story “L” shaped addition in… read more
Date added: January 15, 2015; Modified: January 15, 2015
Later known as Heisman Gym, Georgia Tech’s old Auditorium / Gymnasium Building was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The building “was projected to be built in two phases with the first costing $93,000 and the second $116,000…. read more
Date added: January 15, 2015; Modified: January 15, 2015
The University Homes public housing project in Atlanta was completed in 1938 with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. It has since been demolished. “Built in 1938 on the site of the former Beaver Slide slum. Seen as the African… read more
Date added: January 15, 2015; Modified: January 15, 2015
The Techwood Homes public housing project in Atlanta was a whites-only complex constructed between 1935 and 1936 with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. It has since been demolished. “Techwood Homes was the first public housing project in the United… read more
Date added: October 28, 2012; Modified: January 14, 2015
On the third floor of the federal courthouse (then the post office) is a 1936 TRAP mural entitled “Morgan’s Raiders” painted by Daniel Boza.
Date added: October 28, 2012; Modified: January 8, 2015
Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “A Letter” painted by Orlin E. Clayton in 1939.
Date added: December 28, 2014
Charles R. Adams Park is a 32-acre public city park located in southwest Atlanta, Georgia. The park is surrounded by the neighborhood of Cascade Heights. Construction of the park began in the mid-1930s, and the dedication ceremony took place in… read more
Date added: October 28, 2012; Modified: December 23, 2014
Section of Fine Arts terra cotta relief entitled “The Little Farmer” installed by Ilse Erythropel in 1940.
Date added: December 21, 2014; Modified: December 21, 2014
Valdosta State University’s Reade Hall, a dormitory-auditorium building, was constructed as Senior Hall with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds and was completed in spring 1937.
Date added: December 21, 2014
“Dedicated by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in 1941 as Georgia State Women’s College Library and officially named for Richard Holmes Powell, the first president of the institution, in 1947. It served as the library for the college for 30 years before… read more
Date added: December 21, 2014
“The original tenement “House in the Woods” burned down and the second “House in the Woods” was built in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s WPA. The new “House in the Woods” was made of logs with two large open fireplaces.”… read more
Date added: May 5, 2014; Modified: May 5, 2014
A former municipal golf course in Brunswick Georgia built by Donald Ross and the WPA. It was purchased in the 1950’s as a private club and has recently been rehabilitated.