Date added: June 7, 2023; Modified: June 10, 2023
Memorial in Muskingum Park, Marietta, Ohio commemorating the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory in 1788. Memorial includes a statuary group created by Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore carved in local sandstone by WPA workers, landing esplanade… read more
Date added: June 7, 2023; Modified: June 7, 2023
Serpent Mound is the largest effigy mound in North America. The site is a National Historic Landmark and, with eight other Native American earthworks in Ohio, is on the US Tentative List of sites submitted to UNESCO as a proposed… read more
Date added: June 3, 2023; Modified: June 4, 2023
According to an article in the Youngstown Vindicator, the Works Progress Administration expanded the grandstand at the Canfield Fairgrounds in 1936. A historical marker on the fairgrounds credits the “Works Progress Alliance” (presumably a typographical error) with the construction of… read more
Date added: May 3, 2023; Modified: May 3, 2023
Originally the first aid cabin of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp, then a ranger station. Presently (January 2023) a venue for nature programs at the Hocking Hills State Park Visitor Center.
Date added: May 2, 2023; Modified: May 3, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) ran two camps at Hocking Hills State Park in Logan OH. The CCC built Hiking Trails and Old Man’s Cave Unit.
Date added: April 5, 2015; Modified: March 31, 2023
The airport which began service July 1st 1941 carried both passengers and mail. According to the Youngstown Vindicator: “In the mid 1930s, the chambers of commerce of Warren, Youngstown, Niles, Hubbard and Sharon, Pa., decided to make the airport project… read more
Date added: February 10, 2015; Modified: March 25, 2023
The historic post office in Girard, Ohio was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds ca. 1937. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
Date added: March 12, 2023; Modified: March 12, 2023
The Public Works Administration contributed $35,000 for the construction of a new auditorium and gymnasium for David Anderson High School. Ground was broken for the project on December 9th 1937 and the structure was dedicated on October 3rd 1938. The… read more
Date added: June 18, 2013; Modified: March 12, 2023
The historic post office building in Orrville, Ohio houses an example of New Deal artwork: the plaster bas relief “Citizens” by W. Bimel Kehm. The work, completed in 1940, was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: February 10, 2015; Modified: March 12, 2023
The historic post office in Leetonia, Ohio houses an example of New Deal artwork: a terra cotta relief entitled “Industries and Agriculture of Leetonia.” The Treasury Section of Fine Arts commissioned the work, which was created by Lenore Thomas, which… read more
Date added: February 20, 2023; Modified: February 20, 2023
According to the park’s website: “1940 Jack Zedaker leads boys from the National Youth Administration in building two shelter houses (Zedaker Pavilion and the Shelter House at “Indian Spring” near Gutknecht Entrance), four footbridges, planting of trees, construction of trail… read more
Date added: June 18, 2013; Modified: January 31, 2023
“In all, artwork was commissioned for 19 post offices in the Cleveland area. In 2006, only eight are still operational. In those eight, the artwork from the Depression era was still present, though almost all needed cleaning and modest restoration…. read more
Date added: August 3, 2014; Modified: January 29, 2023
“The Canfield WPA Memorial Building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration, a federal government program instituted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as an effort to aid the United States in its recovery from the Great Depression of the late… read more
Date added: January 23, 2023; Modified: January 23, 2023
Stitt Pavilion was constructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1938. Still in use.
Date added: January 23, 2023; Modified: January 23, 2023
Retaining wall that borders the Artists’ Trail in Mill Creek Park. Built by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1936.