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Date added: March 17, 2018; Modified: October 5, 2023
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided funding for the Student Union building on the University of Montana campus in 1934 and the building was completed in 1936. It is now the Fine Arts Building and houses the George & Jane… read more
Date added: March 17, 2018; Modified: October 5, 2023
The Journalism Building on the University of Montana campus in Missoula, now known as Stone Hall, was constructed with Public Works Administration funding in 1936-7. The three-story brick structure originally housed the Journalism School and the printing press of the… read more
Date added: March 1, 2014; Modified: October 5, 2023
McCormick Park in Missoula, Montana was developed by the Works Progess Administration (WPA) on “surplus highway land, a parcel from the American Hide and Fur Company, and land donated from the Kate McCormick estate.” (Wikipedia). The work would have been… read more
Date added: October 4, 2013; Modified: October 5, 2023
The original Missoula post office was completed in 1913 and then expanded during the late 1920s to accommodate the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. A second extension and annex was made under the New Deal, which was… read more
Date added: August 6, 2017; Modified: October 5, 2023
The federal government built a large new health research complex in Hamilton, Montana, during the New Deal, with construction completed in 1940. It would have been done by the Public Buildings Division of the Federal Works Administration for the use… read more
Date added: January 23, 2014; Modified: October 5, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a new baseball field, with grandstand and dugouts, for the people of Hamilton, Montana. We are not certain of the year, but it was probably in 1935 or 1936. The National Youth Administration (NYA)… read more
Date added: February 9, 2014; Modified: October 5, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a new city park for the small town of Darby, Montana in 1937-38. The park is next to the city hall and city museum on South Main Street. It has been improved and well… read more
Date added: March 2, 2014; Modified: August 10, 2023
According to Big Timber Pioneer newspaper, Sacajawea Park in the town of Livingston, MT was one of 55 public parks ‘built or improved’ by the WPA in Montana between fall 1935 and Sept. 1938. The construction of Sacajawea Park involved… read more
Date added: August 4, 2023; Modified: August 4, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a 1,500,000-gallon reservoir north of Laurel, Montana. The project was completed in 1936. “Heading the list of completed WPA projects in Laurel Is the $14,000 municipal water reservoir which will go Into use at… read more
Date added: March 3, 2014; Modified: August 4, 2023
The WPA allocated $29,514 toward street improvements for Laurel, Montana in August 1938.
Date added: January 12, 2014; Modified: August 4, 2023
[The newspaper] Big Timber Pioneer reported that an $18,000 grant was made to “school district No. 7 of Yellowstone county for building school additions” in Laurel. The school in question was most likely what was then Laurel High School at… read more
Date added: January 10, 2014; Modified: June 28, 2023
Among the numerous WPA-constructed buildings in Bozeman designed by Fred Willson was the Irving School located at 611 South 8th Avenue.
Date added: February 8, 2018; Modified: September 19, 2022
The W.P.A. constructed an armory in Chinook, Montana. Official Project Number 65-91-1602. According to local newspaper articles, the new armory was initial used as a civic center for various community events, as well as a jail, and office space for… read more
Date added: April 18, 2014; Modified: May 23, 2022
The WPA allocated $16,326 at the end of 1938 to make improvements to the Phillips County Fairgrounds in Dodson, Montana. Gary Winthorpe: “These fairgrounds were actually completed in 1942, not 1939 [as Living New Deal originally posted]. They continued to… read more
Date added: January 10, 2014; Modified: May 18, 2022
[The newspaper] Big Timber Pioneer reported that the federal government allotted $1,144 for the construction of a new log schoolhouse in the former town of Flesher, Montana in Lewis and Clark County. Originally assigned to three WPA laborers, the project… read more