Lake Kabetogama Ranger Station – Kabetogama MN
Date added: July 26, 2012; Modified: March 8, 2016
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed the Lake Kabetogama Ranger Station, in Kabetogama State Forest. The structure is still in use.
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Marcell Ranger Station – Marcell MN
Date added: July 26, 2012; Modified: March 8, 2016
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed Chippewa National Forest’s Marcell Ranger Station between 1934 and 1936, and it is now part of the National Register of Historic Places. Five of the original six buildings, all constructed in the Rustic… read more
The River Inn – Jay Cooke State Park MN
Date added: July 26, 2012; Modified: March 8, 2016
Jay Cooke State Park’s River Inn, constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) using a local rock known as gabbro, is among the “largest CCC buildings in Minnesota.”
Suspension Bridge – Jay Cooke State Park MN
Date added: July 26, 2012; Modified: March 8, 2016
From 1934 to 1935, the Civilian Conservation (CCC) reconstructed a suspension bridge, spanning the St. Louis River, at Jay Cooke State Park.
University of Minnesota: Murphy Hall – Minneapolis MN
Date added: August 17, 2015; Modified: January 12, 2016
Murphy Hall may have been a New Deal project dating to the late 1930s. It was constructed between 1938-1940 as a new home for journalism.
Mitchell Student Center (former library) – Rochester MN
Date added: July 20, 2015; Modified: January 12, 2016
The Mitchell Student Center at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota was built between 1936 and 1937 by the Public Works Administration (PWA). Designed by Harold Crawford, Rochester’s preeminent architect at the time, the building originally housed the Rochester… read more
Moland Township Hall – Glyndon MN
Date added: September 16, 2015; Modified: September 17, 2015
This stone building was a WPA project completed in 1937 as a schoolhouse. It was originally known as District #121, later known as the “Gunderson School” and rezoned as District #6. It is now used as the Moland Township Hall…. read more
New Ulm High School Auditorium Murals – New Ulm MN
Date added: May 1, 2015; Modified: August 24, 2015
In March 1939, the school received notification that the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) had awarded a grant that would pay for three murals for the school’s new auditorium. John Martin Socha was chosen as the… read more
University of Minnesota: Coffman Memorial Union – Minneapolis MN
Date added: August 17, 2015
The student union at the University of Minnesota, now known as Coffman Memorial Union, was likely a New Deal project (probably PWA), though substantially later than the other New Deal buildings on campus. From contributor Charles Swaney: “I’ve been impressed… read more
Town Hall (former) – Milaca MN
Date added: July 26, 2015; Modified: August 4, 2015
WPA crews built the Milaca town hall in 1938. It is now the location of the Milaca Area Historical Society and the Milaca Museum.
Milaca Museum Murals – Milaca MN
Date added: August 4, 2015
In 1938, artist Andre Boratko painted these murals in Milaca’s new town hall with funding from the WPA.
West Minnehaha Recreation Center – St. Paul MN
Date added: July 20, 2015
One of architect Clarence “Cap” Wigington’s distinctive St. Paul structures, the West Minnehaha Recreation Center was built between 1937 and 1938 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Wigington was the first black municipal architect in the country, and many of… read more
Lake Shetek State Park – Currie MN
Date added: July 10, 2015; Modified: July 10, 2015
The Wikipedia page for Lake Shetek State Park, indicates that both the FERA and the WPA played instrumental roles in the early development of the park, including roads, sewers, and the construction of several structures, some of which are still… read more
Ortonville Golf Course Clubhouse – Ortonville MN
Date added: July 10, 2015
The WPA constructed the clubhouse on this golf course circa 1940 to 1943.
Minnesota State Fairgrounds – St. Paul MN
Date added: May 16, 2015; Modified: July 10, 2015
The WPA built several structures for the Minnesota State Fair from 1935-1940, including the art deco Horticulture building, the horse barn and decorative friezes, the sheep and poultry barn, the swine barn, the commissary building and the 4-H building. From… read more