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In the 1930s youths the National Youth Administration (NYA) hired young people to construct the stone shop building in Gypsum Hill Cemetery. The shop building bears an NYA plaque.
Date added: September 8, 2017
The Works Progress Administration’s National Youth Administration (WPA/NYA) hired youths to construct the stone shop building and 2 restrooms in Sunset Park in Salina Kansas. During the 1950s, the shop building doubled as a voting station. The shop building bears… read more
Date added: September 8, 2017; Modified: September 8, 2017
In 1937, youths employed by the National Youth Administration (NYA), a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), constructed a building of native stone that became knows as the “KIVA” in Thomas Park. For many years the Kiva served as… read more
Date added: August 17, 2017
The Fredonia post office was constructed ca. 1937 during the Depression era with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
Date added: August 17, 2017
The Fredonia post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: “Delivery of Mail to the Farm,” a group of glazed terra-cotta reliefs created by Lenore Thomas.
Date added: August 13, 2016; Modified: August 15, 2017
The Salina United States Post Office and Federal Building (c. 1937-1938) is located at 211 W. Iron in Salina, Saline County, Kansas. The two story, flat roofed, limestone building has a northern facade orientation. The building measures approximately one hundred… read more
Date added: May 15, 2017
A band shell in Clay Center’s Dexter Park was constructed in 1934. The work is often attributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA). However, since the WPA did not exist until 1935, it is likely that that the band shell… read more
Date added: May 15, 2017
“The WPA restroom building is a small rectangular structure oriented east-west near the northwest corner of Poplar and 4th streets. Like the other WPA park buildings, random range quarry-faced ashlar limestone clads the walls of this building. “
Date added: May 15, 2017
“The existing bandshell was constructed in 1992 to replace and earlier building constructed in 1934. The City received CWA funds to construct the original bandshell adjacent to the stadium in the fairgrounds park. It burned in 1992 and was replaced… read more
Date added: May 14, 2017
Now officially Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, what was originally Wichita Municipal Airport was improved and developed by the W.P.A. during the 1930s. Improvement work included paving the runways.
Date added: May 14, 2017
“The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas occupies a beautiful WPA (Works Progress Administration) building which was the Wichita Municipal Airport terminal from 1935 to 1951.”
Date added: May 8, 2017; Modified: May 8, 2017
Ellsworth County Bridge, which carries 8th Road across Smoky Hill River, was constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project in 1939.
Date added: August 20, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
Built in 1938.
Date added: August 20, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1939, the Russell post office is also the site of Martyl Schweig’s 1940 mural, “Wheat Workers,” painted for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: March 14, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office in Paola, Kansas was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.