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    "Early and Contemporary Industries"

    Post Office Murals – Grants Pass OR

    Date added: August 17, 2013; Modified: November 14, 2021

    The New Deal post office in Grants Pass contains two New Deal murals in the lobby.  “Rogue River Indians” was painted by Louis DeMott Bunce and “Early and Contemporary Industries” is the work of Eric Lamade. Both were created in 1938 under… read more

    Lamonta Compound Ochoco National Forest Superrvisor's Office

    Lamonta Compound – Prineville OR

    Date added: November 12, 2021; Modified: November 12, 2021

    In 1933-1934, Civilian Conservation Corps workers built several wood frame buildings to serve as the Ochoco National Forest’s Supervisor’s Warehouse or Lamonta Compound. Exemplifying the rustic architectural style developed by the US Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region, the three structures… read more

    Entrance to Battle Mountain State Park

    Battle Mountain State Park – Ukiah OR

    Date added: October 15, 2021; Modified: October 15, 2021

    In 1935, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was located at Battle Mountain State Park to improve that state recreational property. The CCC workers built a water system with drinking fountains and a large granite fireplace as well as placing picnic… read more

    State Highway Division Region 1 Office (Vacant) – Milwaukie OR

    Date added: January 1, 2020; Modified: October 15, 2021

    The State Highway Division Region 1 Office, originally known as the State Highway Division Office and State Police Headquarters Building, was constructed in 1938 by Works Progress Administration (WPA) employees. The total cost of the building, landscaped grounds, and associated… read more

    University of Oregon, Knight Library – Eugene OR

    Date added: November 30, 2013; Modified: October 15, 2021

    “By the mid-1920s, the “Old Libe” (now Fenton Hall) had inadequate space to hold library materials even with its 1916 addition. Library collections were stored in several campus locations, including the second floor of Condon Hall. As a consequence of… read more

    Clackamas County Courthouse – Oregon City OR

    Date added: November 11, 2019; Modified: October 15, 2021

    Members of the Clackamas County Planning Board announced during the summer of 1935 that the fifty-one-year old Courthouse represented a fire hazard as well as no longer being adequate for the county’s business. Citing the possibility of obtaining PWA funds… read more

    View of Barclay House from Center Street (northwest perspective) with McLoughlin House shown to the south

    Barclay House – Oregon City OR

    Date added: September 24, 2021; Modified: October 1, 2021

    Currently serving as the National Park Service’s administrative office for the Fort Vancouver – McLoughlin House Unit, the Dr. Forbes Barclay House shares more than proximity with its better-known neighbor (the McLoughlin House). The two structures not only housed important… read more

    McLoughlin House – Oregon City OR

    Date added: August 7, 2021; Modified: October 1, 2021

    Restoration and preservation of the John McLoughlin House, dating from 1846, advanced in several ways during the New Deal era. The Civil Works Administration (CWA) funded local architects to document the house in 1934 as part of the first Historic… read more

    Cooper Spur Trail Shelter

    Cooper Spur Trail Shelter – Mt. Hood National Forest OR

    Date added: October 1, 2021

    As recorded in a discussion of the Mount Hood National Forest in the US Forest Service publication  The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-1942: “The Cooper Spur Trail Shelter was one of several shelters built by the CCC… read more

    Adjutant General's House at Camp Withycombe

    Adjutant General’s House, Camp Withycombe – Clackamas OR

    Date added: April 30, 2021; Modified: August 12, 2021

    The Colonial Revival style Adjutant General’s house at Camp Withycombe was constructed by Works Progress Administration workers in 1938. Although a military facility since 1909 when it was developed as a rifle range, Camp Withycombe had few permanent structures before… read more

    CCC Camp Sisters

    Camp Sisters Improvements – Camp Sherman OR

    Date added: January 3, 2015; Modified: August 4, 2021

    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Sisters (F-110, Company #1454) at Camp Sherman, Oregon operated near the headwaters of the Metolius River in Jefferson County from 1933 to 1942. It was just one of the average 60 CCC camps that… read more