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Hide Search OptionsDate added: September 1, 2020; Modified: May 16, 2022
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is named after Marriner Stoddard Eccles (1890-1977), FDR’s Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1934-1948. It was built from 1935-1937, at a cost of $3,484,000. The Federal Reserve paid for the building… read more
Date added: May 25, 2013; Modified: May 15, 2022
The second floor of the north wing of the Ben W. Murch Elementary School was added by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in 1933-34. The school is an elegant two-story, federal-style building with a cupola over the central portion and… read more
Date added: December 4, 2011; Modified: May 15, 2022
U.S. Government Publishing Office Warehouse (also known as Building No. 4) is graced on the exterior by four bas-relief sculptures commissioned by the New Deal’s Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The original name of this office complex was the US Government… read more
Date added: February 24, 2020; Modified: May 15, 2022
In 1938, the Public Works Administration (PWA) allotted $58,900 for divorcements sewers in the Good Hope Road area. The new sewers began in Anacostia Park, “midway between the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge and the Eleventh Street Bridge,” and then ran “southeastward… read more
Date added: January 6, 2020; Modified: May 15, 2022
The northern L-shape wing of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 10th Street NW, was constructed in 1934-1935. The existing IRS building (square and containing four court yards) had been built in 1930, as part of… read more
Date added: January 6, 2020; Modified: May 15, 2022
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (USGPO) is a four building complex, which was called the Government Printing Office until the name was changed to the Government Publishing Office in 2014. Building No. 3 was constructed in 1939-40 by the Treasury Department and… read more
Date added: January 18, 2017; Modified: May 11, 2022
Dacre F. Boulton painted two oil-on-canvas murals, “Industrial” and “Winter,” for the U.S. Department of Labor in 1933-1934 with funds provided by the Public Works of Art Project of the Treasury Department (PWAP). The Smithsonian American Art Museum received this… read more
Date added: February 11, 2020; Modified: February 26, 2022
The United States National Arboretum was established as a public center for scientific research, education, and gardens to conserve and showcase the floral bounty of America and the world. It was authorized in 1927, but the actual development of the… read more
Date added: May 19, 2012; Modified: February 25, 2022
The Henry J. Daly Building is the former District of Columbia Municipal Center, built in 1939-41 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) (which was incorporated into the Federal Works Administration in 1939 in a major government reorganization). The… read more
Date added: December 4, 2011; Modified: February 8, 2022
In 1937, Domenico Mortellito painted habitat background murals for the Bird House and the Pachyderm (Elephant) House and added murals to the zoo restaurant. These murals were commissioned by the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), which aimed to put unemployed… read more
Date added: September 11, 2019; Modified: February 7, 2022
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the building for a restaurant at National Zoo, constructed in 1939-40. The restaurant building still serves the public today as the Mane Cafe. In its 1939 fiscal year report, the National Zoo noted: “The Public… read more
Date added: November 16, 2021; Modified: November 16, 2021
The Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Works Progress Administration funded improvements at the Monroe Playground in Washington DC in 1934-1935. The work consisted of the following improvements: “Graded, moved and remodeled shelter-house, relocated equipment.”… read more
Date added: May 19, 2012; Modified: October 16, 2021
The old Recorder of Deeds Building is a three-story structure built 1941-1943 by the municipal government of the District of Columbia. Funding was provided in 1940 by the Public Works Administration (PWA), which was by then part of the Federal… read more
Date added: December 14, 2019; Modified: October 14, 2021
The National Archives building was substantially completed under the New Deal and the central stacks were added with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA). In 1926, Congress approved $8.7 million for a home for the National Archives. The Public… read more
Date added: February 25, 2020; Modified: October 11, 2021
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial in Washington DC was completed in 1997 at cost of $48 million dollars, funded largely by the federal government. It is located in West Potomac Park, along the tidal basin between the Lincoln and… read more