Palomares Middle School – Pomona CA
Date added: August 21, 2008
Construction of a one-story frame and stucco shop and classroom building, improving the roof of the main building, and general grading and ground improvements.
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La Verne Heights School – La Verne CA
Date added: August 21, 2008
The WPA first demolished the original school, which had been condemned as a fire hazard. New buildings included a seven classroom frame and stucco building, with and auditorium and library, ground improvements, and the conversion of an older building into… read more
Hawthorne Elementary School – Beverly Hills CA
Date added: August 21, 2008
Damaged by the 1933 earthquake, the school had consisted of three buildings- one of them condemned- and two tents. The WPA razed the condemned building and rebuilt a new classroom building, of frame and stucco construction, and also regraded the… read more
Peter Burnett Elementary School – Long Beach CA
Date added: August 21, 2008
SERA demolished the old school (which had been ruined by the 1933 earthquake), and the WPA built a new one-story flat roof steel frame classroom, total area of 19,000 square feet. The building was divided into classrooms and equipped with… read more
Damien High School/Old Bonita Union High School – La Verne CA
Date added: August 21, 2008
Then the Bonita Union High School, this school received extensive WPA support after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. According the a 1939 WPA Accomplishment Report for Southern California, the federal government spent $63,927 on the school out of a total… read more
Jane Addams Elementary School – Long Beach CA
Date added: August 19, 2008
The WPA demolished and reconstructed Long Beach’s Jane Addams Elementary School in the 1930s; Living New Deal believes this was done in response to damage from the 1933 earthquake.
Ellis Lake Park Improvements – Marysville CA
Date added: August 19, 2008
In 1939-40, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) made substantial improvements to Ellis Lake Park, which was originally designed by landscape architect John McLaren in 1924 on an old slough of the Yuba River. It is not clear how much of… read more
Beach Elementary School – Piedmont CA
Date added: August 15, 2008
The original Beach School was built in 1913 but declared an earthquake hazard and torn down in 1934. It was replaced in two phases: the main wing in 1936 and the rear classroom wing and auditorium in 1940 (PHS 2007)…. read more
Temescal Regional Recreation Area: Beach House – Oakland CA
Date added: August 11, 2008
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the elegant stone Beach House at Lake Temescal Park, now known as Temescal Regional Recreation Area, part of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD). When the EBRPD was created in 1934, the Civilian… read more
Temescal Regional Recreation Area: Improvements – Oakland CA
Date added: August 11, 2008
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved Lake Temescal Park, now known as Temescal Regional Recreation Area, one of the original units of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD). When the EBRPD was created in 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps… read more
Oswald Road Bridge – Yuba City CA
Date added: August 6, 2008
–From photo verso– Number People Benefited: 2500 Appraisal of Community Value: Improvement of the Farm to Market Roads –This bridge will give to the farmers living in the Sutter Basin District a direct route to the Markets in Yuba CIty… read more
Buena Vista Park Tennis Courts – San Francisco CA
Date added: August 4, 2008
Fort Mason – San Francisco CA
Date added: August 4, 2008
Golden Gate Bridge: Veterans Boulevard Approach Road and Tunnel – San Francisco CA
Date added: August 4, 2008
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of the Veterans Boulevard approach road and tunnel to the Golden Gate Bridge (not itself a New Deal project) in 1939-40. The roadway runs north-south across the Presidio of San Francisco, connecting… read more
UC Extension/San Francisco State Teacher’s University – Woods Hall Annex – San Francisco CA
Date added: August 4, 2008
San Francisco State University (then, the Normal School) moved here from its original location at Powell and Clay Streets after the 1906 earthquake. In 1936, the Woods Hall Annex science building was completed in the Northwest corner of the campus… read more