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Date added: June 8, 2013; Modified: June 8, 2013
“The Purcell Community Hall is a single story rectangular building (51’ X 104’) and is constructed of dark red native sandstone laid in a cob web pattern. The masonry is splendid…On the front a limestone frieze and water table line… read more
Date added: June 7, 2013
This brick building was constructed by the PWA in 1938. Note the strong similarity to the high school in Ste. Genevieve, MO, now used as an ancillary building. The PWA building is still standing at the coordinates marked on our… read more
Date added: June 5, 2013
Magruder Park is Hyattsville’s major park facility. According to an index of WPA projects in the National Archives the WPA worked on the park in 1935, improving the park, clearing the stream, constructing playground courts, a wading pool and curbs… read more
Date added: June 5, 2013
These two stone bridges were built by the WPA as part of the same project that built the town hall.
Date added: May 23, 2013; Modified: June 4, 2013
This handsome brick building was constructed by the WPA in 1934 in Centinela Park (otherwise known as Vincent Park). Centinela Park also contains WPA tennis courts.
Date added: March 3, 2013; Modified: June 3, 2013
Before the PWA addition, the (much smaller) building was an elementary school, first built in 1909-1910 as the A.J. Chambers School (for white students), then it became the East Eighteenth Street Colored School in 1931. The school was enlarged in… read more
Date added: June 3, 2013; Modified: June 3, 2013
“Mayor George Walker: In the 1930’s, Winter Garden, Florida, was struggling economically along with the rest of the nation. The Great Depression left growers without markets, consumers without spending money, and many without work. It was Winter Garden’s fortune to… read more
Date added: May 30, 2013
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed PWA), Project No. ILL. 1306-R. Constructed in 1936.
Date added: May 24, 2013; Modified: May 24, 2013
A HABS Survey Report describes CCC work at Fort Foote Park: “Constructed as part of a ring of Civil War fortifications surrounding Washington, DC, and intended to replace the aging Fort Washington located a few miles down the river, Fort… read more
Date added: October 3, 2012; Modified: May 23, 2013
Before Midway Airport was called Midway it was known as the Municipal Airport. However, in the 1930s, under the watchful eye of the WPA (Works Progress Association), the airport went under construction to expand and add new runways for safer… read more
Date added: August 27, 2011; Modified: May 23, 2013
Constructed by the WPA.
Date added: May 22, 2013; Modified: May 22, 2013
“Pulliam wanted to give Loveland a meeting place ‘solely for community purposes.’ In 1936, he and Lillian donated the land and $20,000 to build the Pulliam. The 20,000-square-foot building was built by 100 workers paid by the Works Progress Administration,… read more
Date added: May 22, 2013; Modified: May 22, 2013
“The Anna Miller Museum, a place where you can walk back in time and relive the old west. Built in the 1930’s, the museum was originally a WPA project for Company A, 115th Cavalry, Wyoming National Guard. Many long, hard… read more
Date added: May 22, 2013; Modified: May 22, 2013
“With support from the local communities and the state, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a museum at the park in 1938. The Sacajawea Museum was built to display Native American artifacts from the tribes of the Columbia Plateau. The… read more
Date added: May 22, 2013; Modified: May 22, 2013
“The Osage Tribal Museum, originally constructed in 1872, is housed in a building finished with native Oklahoma sandstone. Originally used as a chapel, school and dormitory as a two-story structure with an auditorium, it was remodeled in 1937 as a one-story building… read more