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Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a six-room elementary school building in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. A plaque on the building dates the construction to 1935 to 1937. It was one of many educational facilities constructed by the WPA in… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the stately and historic Cove Creek High School building in Sugar Grove, North Carolina. It was one of many educational facilities constructed by the WPA in Watauga County. The building features three WPA plaques… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
During the Great Depression the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and Work Projects Administration (WPA) helped to develop and complete the old Watauga County Hospital, whose construction had begun at the beginning of the 1930s. The building was later known… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
Appalachian State University, then known as Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C), was substantially improved and developed as part of infrastructure and building construction projects on the institution’s campus. Numerous New Deal organizations, including the Civil Works Administration (CWA), Federal Emergency… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Dauphin Disco Dougherty Memorial Library, now known as D.D. Dougherty Hall, was constructed by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) at what was then known as Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, North Carolina. The building was completed in… read more
Date added: June 21, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant for the construction of a new science building: Smith-Wright Hall at what was then known as Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, North Carolina. The cornerstone identifies 1939 as the year construction… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
A high school facility for Boone, NC was constructed in 1935-7* on the campus of what was then known as Appalachian State Teachers College (ASTC)—now Appalachian State University—by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The building, known as Appalachian High School… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Watauga County Courthouse complex in Boone, North Carolina “includes a Works Projects Administration funded building as part of its annex.” The striking stone building “was completed in 1939 and housed the Watauga County Library from 1946 through 1997.” The… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a “two-room elementary [school] building for Negro children in Boone,” North Carolina. It was one of many educational facilities constructed by the WPA in Watauga County. A USGS map seems to show a school… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: March 30, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the stone gymnasium structure at Blowing Rock School. It was one of many educational facilities constructed by the WPA in Watauga County. The WPA also constructed a “well-planned” playground. The school facility has since… read more
Date added: June 7, 2022; Modified: September 24, 2022
The Transylvania County Administration building at 101 South Broad Street in Brevard, North Carolina was originally constructed as a New Deal post office. The post office was one of several similar Federal/Greek Revival-style facilities in western North Carolina. Per The… read more
Date added: June 22, 2022; Modified: September 22, 2022
Now known as the Malvern Hills Pool, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) supplied labor for the construction / improvement of what was called the Horney Heights Swimming Pool, named for a development of the… read more
Date added: August 3, 2016; Modified: September 20, 2022
“The new Hall of History Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been completed. It is a three-story brick structure which cost $32,000.” The building was constructed with the assistance of either the federal Works Progress Admininstration (WPA) or the Public… read more
Date added: August 30, 2017; Modified: September 19, 2022
A former armory quartering the Durham National Guard, what is now the central civic center in downtown Durham, North Carolina was constructed between 1935 and 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) It was converted to a civic center circa… read more
Date added: June 23, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted extensive farm-to-market road construction and improvement work in Watauga County, North Carolina. A newspaper photo shows one such WPA road project “from the potato mountain section to Mabel.”