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Date added: July 23, 2012; Modified: January 29, 2015
“Blue Ridge Parkway tunnels consist of a total of 26 vehicle tunnels constructed along the 469 miles (755 km) of the Blue Ridge Parkway. One, the Bluff Mountain Tunnel,[1] is in Virginia and twenty-five are in North Carolina.[2] The design standards… read more
Date added: September 9, 2014; Modified: January 28, 2015
“First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk” Medium: oil on canvas, 1940 Phillip Von Saltza, painter Von Saltza’s painting was selected from a pool of 1,475 entrants. The painting, in the post office in this eastern North Carolina… read more
Date added: November 4, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
“The town had the first municipally owned swimming pool west of Asheville. The stone and concrete pool was built in 1938 by the WPA during the Great Depression; it was demolished in 1969 to be replaced by the current [Roscoe… read more
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
The plaster relief titled “Unity” was created for the historic post office building in Marion, North Carolina, now the library. The relief has been moved from above what would have been the Postmaster’s door and placed on the wall of… read more
Date added: December 3, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
G. Glenn Newell painted this mural, “Daydreams” in 1941 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It hung in the Wallace, North Carolina, post office, which is now privately owned.
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
New York artist Allan Gould completed this oil on canvas mural, “Gathering Tobacco,” measuring 5’8″ by 13’7″, in 1938, on a $650 contract from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. From historian Anita Price Davis’ 2008 book New Deal Art… read more
Date added: September 28, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
The mural “Early Summer in North Carolina” was painted by Jean Watson in 1940 as a federal Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts project for the old Madison, North Carolina post office. The mural was relocated to the lobby of… read more
Date added: June 12, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
The historic New Deal post office in Canton, North Carolina is privately owned. This terra cotta sculpture “Paper,” created by Sam Bell, was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It still hangs in the building lobby today.
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Early Days at Elkin” Medium: terra cotta
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Southern Pines Idyll” Medium: oil on canvas
Date added: December 11, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
William Pfohl painted this oil on canvas mural in 1940, entitled “Port of Wilmington,” with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the post office library.
Date added: November 15, 2014; Modified: January 17, 2015
Federal funds / labor were utilized on an erosion control project along Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte, North Carolina during the early years of the Great Depression.
Date added: November 15, 2014; Modified: January 17, 2015
“Between 1932 and 1935 communities throughout North Carolina, including Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, benefited from a broad array of public works funded primarily by Washington. These included … the extension of a section of Queens Road to connect with East Morehead… read more
Date added: November 19, 2014; Modified: January 6, 2015
A major sanitary sewer construction project in Waynesville, North Carolina was enabled by federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds during the Great Depression. The PWA provided a $122,500 loan and $100,227 outright grant to the community for the project, whose… read more
Date added: May 5, 2014; Modified: January 6, 2015
“The Civil Works Administration (CWA) spent nearly eighteen hundred dollars building and remodeling privies at white and African American schools throughout the county in the 1930s.”