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Date added: June 17, 2008
This tempera and oil on canvas mural “Incidents in California History” by Suzanne Scheuer was painted in 1936-37 with funding from the Treasury Relief Art Project. Located in the Berkeley Main Post Office. This mural depicts the earliest inhabitants of… read more
Date added: April 28, 2008
From 1936 to 1938, the WPA graded 1,292 feet of city streets, painted 7 city shcool, and built two small storm sewers and one large storm sewer in Thompson Creek. Of the WPA, the mayor of Petaluma said in 1938,… read more
Date added: April 28, 2008
This large storm sewer is an arch-shaped, reinforced concrete construction 14 feet in diameter, in the bed of Thompson Creek, and runs through residential and business districts in the southern part of Petaluma. It was constructed by the federal Works… read more
Date added: April 28, 2008
Construction of Cloverdale’s joint city hall and fire station began under California’s State Emergency Relief Administration; it was completed with federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor.
Date added: April 28, 2008
Originally Cloverdale Union High School
Date added: April 28, 2008
Originally known as Sonoma State Home, Eldridge, all the structures and streets of this place later became Sonoma State Hospital (now Sonoma Valley Hospital). Various WPA projects were undertaken here.
Date added: April 28, 2008
The WPA terraced and landscaped the school grounds, and constructed playgrounds, fences, and bleachers. The statue of the globe shown below was also built in 1936 and may well have been a New Deal addition.
Date added: April 28, 2008
In 1935, the WPA demolished Sebastopol’s original wood-frame city hall and replaced it with a reinforced concrete building containing both municipal offices and a fire station. The Santa Rosa architectural firm, William F. Herbert and Clarence A. Caulkins designed the… read more
Date added: April 28, 2008
Hamilton Field was built in 1931 as a bomber base, was used as a refugee center during the Vietnam War, and was closed in 1974. The WPA built additions such as several hangars, the headquarters building, an officers mess, and… read more
Date added: March 17, 2008
Date added: March 17, 2008
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped with the construction of the Healdsburg Elementary School in 1935. WPA workers improved the playgrounds and finished the interior of the school auditorium. There is a plaque put up when the school was… read more
Date added: March 17, 2008
“The sewer and water-main projects provided the city with an extensive system of new mains in addition to the replacement of old ones, no longer large enough to meet the requirements of the city. By 1938, 8,500 feet of sewer… read more
Date added: March 17, 2008
The mural “Early California” by James Redmond was funded by TRAP in 1936. The mural depicts myths of early California and wraps around all four walls of the post office lobby.
Date added: March 17, 2008
Municipal swimming pool or "plunge," built by the WPA in 1940, and still in use. It is a 25 yard pool, containing 8 lanes, and is now administered by the El Segundo Parks and Recreation Department. It was named after… read more
Date added: March 17, 2008
Santa Rosa’s Doyle Park Bridge was constructed as a WPA project during the 1930s. The bridge is located at the north entrance to the park, Doyle Park Drive.
Check out our latest map and guide to the work of the New Deal in Washington, D.C. It includes 500 New Deal sites in the District alone, highlighting 34 notable sites, and includes an inset map of the area around the National Mall which can be used for self-guided walking tours.
Take a look at our previous guides, equally comprehensive, covering key New Deal sites in San Francisco and New York City.
