Date added: February 23, 2013; Modified: October 4, 2023
The Forest Service ranger station at Stanley, Idaho was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933. It replaced an earlier ranger station built in the 1900s. The style is Park Rustic, popular for parks and forest service facilities… read more
Date added: July 17, 2015; Modified: October 4, 2023
In 1934, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees constructed the fire Guard Station in Bonanza, Idaho. Bonanza is a former mining camp on the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River, near its confluence with Jordan Creek. Nothing is left of the… read more
Date added: October 4, 2023; Modified: October 4, 2023
In 1933-34, a large number of civil improvements were made to Twin Falls, Idaho by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Idaho Emergency Relief Administration (IERA). The works were done by relief workers hired from local jobless rolls in the… read more
Date added: January 28, 2018; Modified: October 4, 2023
The City Park Band Shell in Twin Falls, Idaho was constructed as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) project in 1934-1935, part of a larger program of civic improvements around the city of Twin Falls. The band shell is still… read more
Date added: September 28, 2023; Modified: October 3, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Clifton High School in Clifton, Franklin County. The project was awarded to Isakson and Morrin of Ogden, Utah with a winning bid of $43,300 in December of 1938. It was completed in 1939…. read more
Date added: September 28, 2023; Modified: October 3, 2023
The Civil Workers Administration (CWA) improved a road into Clifton Basin located above the town about 4 miles. The overall length of the improved route was about a mile long and allowed a smoother, less steep, and less dangerous route… read more
Date added: February 23, 2013; Modified: October 3, 2023
The Sunbeam Hot Springs was greatly improved for public use by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). In 1937, enrollees from the Clayton CCC Camp built a bathhouse on a walled, concrete platform overlooking the Salmon River, with two access stairways… read more
Date added: December 19, 2015; Modified: October 3, 2023
The Jerome County Courthouse in Jerome, Idaho was constructed with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1938-1939. Jerome County received a $39,150 dollar grant from the WPA regional office in Portland, Oregon toward an estimated cost of $87,000… read more
Date added: August 10, 2019; Modified: October 3, 2023
The Public Works Administration funded construction of the public Library in Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1939. The library still stands and is in use. An addition has been made to the west wing of the building and a new… read more
Date added: March 17, 2012; Modified: October 2, 2023
The historic Burley post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: an oil-on-canvas mural entitled “Pioneers on the Oregon Trail along the Snake River,” painted by Elizabeth Lochrie in 1938. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of… read more
Date added: March 9, 2015; Modified: October 2, 2023
The historic Burley post office was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1935. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
Date added: December 7, 2011; Modified: July 24, 2023
The historic Kellogg post office was built in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
Date added: April 16, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp at Elk River, Idaho, in 1933. It was designated as Camp F-133 (a Forest Service camp). Elk River is a small town in mid-panhandle Idaho, west of the Clearwater Range. The main… read more
Date added: March 22, 2023
Construction on this Public Works Administration (PWA) funded building took place in 1934 as an addition to the town’s high school (built in 1911). While retaining the New Deal era gymnasium, the current Lava Elementary School structure replaced the high… read more
Date added: November 25, 2021; Modified: May 18, 2022
In 1933, the Public Works Administration allotted $10,000 (about $203,000 in 2020 dollars) for the construction of three small schools on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation (home of five Shoshone-Bannock Tribes), one of which was the Lincoln Creek Day School…. read more