Date added: April 12, 2015; Modified: April 18, 2015
Jacksonville, Florida’s May Street was paved with bricks during the Great Depression using federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor ca. 1936. Google Street View, as of 2015, shows that the southern portion of May Street is still brick-paved.
Date added: April 18, 2015
Jacksonville Municipal Airport, also known as Jacksonville Army Airfield and later Imeson Field, was developed in part by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). One archival image shows that the WPA paved a runway at the airport in 1936. “The… read more
Date added: March 11, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2015
“The stadium began life in 1936 as a modest 8,900-person venue, built as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal program in the Works Progress Administration…The Orlando Citrus Bowl — then named Orlando Stadium — was one of 116,000 buildings… read more
Date added: March 11, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2015
Originally known as the Roddey Burdine Stadium, the historic former Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida was built with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds in 1936-1937. The structure was demolished in 2008.
Date added: March 27, 2015; Modified: March 29, 2015
Now one of two spans that carries Florida State Highway 20 across the Apalachicola River, this bridge, which connects Blountstown in Calhoun County with Bristol in Liberty County, was a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. (The New Deal span,… read more
Date added: December 7, 2011; Modified: March 19, 2015
Personal description of the park by project submitter John Walker: “The entire park including the coquina coral atoll pool, was manmade. My grandfather, Robert “Bob” C. Long was a CCC worker, and worked on the project and helped to build… read more
Date added: July 12, 2014; Modified: March 19, 2015
Miami and the surrounding Dade County were effectively without city or county parks until the 1930s. The city got its first park in 1925, after which the city was devastated by a hurricane the following year. The county received its… read more
Date added: October 15, 2012; Modified: March 13, 2015
The historic Lake Wales post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: a Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “Harvest Time—Lake Wales.” The work was painted by Denman Fink in 1942.
Date added: October 15, 2012; Modified: March 13, 2015
The historic post office building in Jasper, Florida houses New Deal artwork: two Section of Fine Arts-commissioned tempera frescoes by Pietro Lazzari titled “Harvest at Home” and “News from Afar.” They were completed in 1942.
Date added: December 5, 2011; Modified: March 13, 2015
This mural entitled “Scene of Town” was painted in 1942 by Thomas I. Laughlin. It was a winner of the Treasury Section’s 48-State competition. It was moved to the “new” post office in 1989.
Date added: October 15, 2012; Modified: March 13, 2015
The historic Miami Beach post office houses three New Deal murals depicting “Episodes from the History of Florida” painted in 1940 by WPA artist Charles Russell Hardman. (The federal agency that commissioned the works was the Treasury Section of Fine… read more
Date added: March 13, 2015; Modified: March 13, 2015
The FERA initiated construction of Key West’s sewerage system in 1935-36. In 1935, the WPA took over FERA activities, and likely continued sewer construction efforts.
Date added: October 17, 2012; Modified: March 13, 2015
This Section funded mural “Prehistoric Life in Florida” was painted for the Sebring post office in 1942 by Charles R. Knight. It now hangs in the Sebring Public Library.
Date added: July 20, 2012; Modified: March 7, 2015
“One of Florida’s first state parks, O’Leno was first developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s. The suspension bridge built by the CCC still spans the river. Visitors can picnic at one of the pavilions or fish… read more
Date added: October 15, 2014; Modified: March 7, 2015
New Smyrna Beach’s city hall was originally built as the city’s library. The building was constructed by federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor during the Great Depression.