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Date added: November 29, 2014; Modified: January 24, 2015
Known as the “Kitchen Shelter” because it includes a fireplace and stove, it was constructed in 1936, making it one of the first WPA buildings in the park. The WPA also put in two miles of footpaths, planted 4,000 trees… read more
Date added: July 22, 2013; Modified: January 23, 2015
The 5′ x 14′ tempera-on-canvas mural entitled “Hog Raising,” located in the historic Caledonia post office, was completed by Edmund Lewandowski (1914-1998) in 1942 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It depicts a farm scene of three men shoveling corn… read more
Date added: January 22, 2015
The federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to construct an airport for Grand Marais, Minnesota in 1933-4. Living New Deal believes this to be Grand Marais Cook County Airport, which is still in use today.
Date added: December 23, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
Margaret Martin painted this oil-on-canvas mural, entitled “Indian Hunters and Rice Gatherers,” in 1940 with funds provided by the federal government. It is viewable in the St. James post office lobby. “Margaret Martin’s mural proposal for the St. James,… read more
Date added: December 23, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
Elsa Jemne painted this egg-tempera-on-plaster fresco, entitled “The Hutchinson Singers,” in 1942 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Hutchinson post office lobby.
Date added: December 22, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
Richard Jansen painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “Threshing Wheat,” in 1942 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the post office lobby.
Date added: December 23, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
Elof Wedin painted this oil-on-canvas mural, entitled “Street Scene,” in 1937 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Litchfield post office lobby.
Date added: December 19, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
Seymour Fogel painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “People of the Soil,” in 1940 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Cambridge post office lobby. “People of the Soil” is “a… read more
Date added: January 11, 2015; Modified: January 14, 2015
The Brandon Auditorium and City Hall was designed by F. Boes Pfeifer, built by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), and completed in 1936. The new Village Hall at Brandon was built by the WPA at a cost of $65,000. It… read more
Date added: August 10, 2013; Modified: January 11, 2015
“Discovery of Ore” by Betty Carney. This mural in the Chisholm Post Office was completed with the help of New Deal funds.
Date added: August 1, 2014; Modified: January 10, 2015
Pioneer Hall is a co-ed residential hall for first-year students at the University of Minnesota. Originally the Men’s Dormitory, the building features colonial architecture and was built in two shifts, the latter with funding from the Public Works Administration. The… read more
Date added: December 8, 2014; Modified: January 8, 2015
“Pioneers Arriving in Marshall by Wagon Train” Henry Holmstrom painted this oil on canvas mural in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable on the Marshall post office lobby.
Date added: December 14, 2011; Modified: January 6, 2015
"The Upper Mississippi navigation project is one element of the system of inland waterway improvements to link the agricultural Middle West with the industrial East, and the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico. Dam No. 5-A is typical of… read more
Date added: December 14, 2011; Modified: January 6, 2015
"Lac qui Parle is a reservoir located in western Minnesota, United States, which was formed by the damming of the Minnesota River. The dam was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Lac qui Parle is a French translation of… read more
Date added: July 28, 2012; Modified: January 1, 2015
“When the Pipestone National Monument was established in 1937 as part of the National Park Service to protect quarries sacred to many Native American groups, the site already had picnic tables and a shelter built by the CCC-ID. In 1939,… read more