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Date added: July 17, 2013; Modified: July 17, 2013
Presently a middle school, the Fulton High School building was constructed by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works in 1938. An addition to the building was completed at a later date with the high school moving to the newer… read more
Date added: July 14, 2013
The cemetery is located in tiny Scott Bar in Siskiyou County, far northern California. The oldest grave is dated 1856, most recent 2013. The cemetery is large, in the woods and surrounded by a beautiful rock wall of native rock…. read more
Date added: July 11, 2013; Modified: July 11, 2013
The post office contains a set of three metal reliefs by Helene Sardeau depicting “Planting,” “Mother and Child,” and “Reaping,” The reliefs were funded by the Section of Fine Arts in 1941.
Date added: October 14, 2012; Modified: July 11, 2013
Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “Gathering Seaweed from the Sound” painted in 1940 by William Abbott Cheever.
Date added: July 9, 2013; Modified: July 9, 2013
The post office contains a 1941 Section of Fine Arts mural by William Abbott Cheever entitled “The Reverend John Eliot Preaching to the Indians.”
Date added: November 26, 2012; Modified: July 9, 2013
The post office contains two Section of Fine Arts murals by Gordon Samstag titled “Law and Order in Old Scarsdale” and “Caleb Heathcote Buys the Richbell Farm.”
Date added: July 9, 2013
McKinley Grade School was constructed in 1938 using PWA funds. It is now used as the administrative offices for the school district. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the McKinley Residential Historic District…. read more
Date added: July 8, 2013
Constructed by the PWA circa 1939. The front of the school has been added onto extensively, covering up the original façade. Interestingly, the original façade is just inside the existing façade and is almost identical to that of the Hughesville,… read more
Date added: July 8, 2013
Liberty Field is a large baseball field with wooden stands that surround home plate. It is reputed to have been the first or one of the first baseball fields west of the Mississippi with lights for night time baseball. It… read more
Date added: June 12, 2012; Modified: July 8, 2013
This 1937 bridge is almost certainly a New Deal structure given the date, style and location.
Date added: July 8, 2013
Constructed by the PWA in 1939. Located within the bounds of the Osage Farms Resettlement project, this was original the school for Hughesville, but became the High School for the consolidated Houstonia and Hughesville District.
Date added: July 8, 2013
The 2 rock structures were originally adjacent to a fish pond, in turn adjacent to a WPA built swimming pool that was dedicated by Harold Ickes. Also present are Horseshoe pits, presumably built by the WPA.
Date added: July 8, 2013
Constructed by the PWA in 1939.
Date added: July 5, 2013
An inventory of WPA project photographs compiled by Becky Jordan at Iowa State University includes reference to numerous public works projects undertaken by the agency in Iowa between 1935 and 1940. The collection of 1,271 photographs documents the variety and… read more
Date added: July 5, 2013
An inventory of WPA project photographs compiled by Becky Jordan at Iowa State University includes reference to numerous public works projects undertaken by the agency in Iowa between 1935 and 1940. The collection of 1,271 photographs documents the variety and… read more