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Date added: August 2, 2019; Modified: August 2, 2019
Constructed in 1939, the Science Building of Arkansas State College (now the Business Building of Arkansas State University), was one of multiple New Deal projects on the college campus. In 1936, Arkansas State College added a Reserve Officers Training Corps…. read more
Date added: June 2, 2019
Camp Preston Hunt is a Boy Scout Camp originally built on 200 acres of donated land in Texarkana, Arkansas. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) cleared the land and built cabins, a dining hall and a picnic shelter. The WPA employed… read more
Date added: May 31, 2019; Modified: May 31, 2019
After the county seat was moved from Washington, Arkansas to Hope, Arkansas, the Washington Public School moved into the empty 1874 Hempstead County Courthouse in Washington. With assistance from the Works Progress Administration, a gym was erected next door in… read more
Date added: April 30, 2019
Dan Rhodes completed this oil-on-canvas mural, entitled “Air Mail,” in 1941 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Piggott post office lobby. The mural was featured on a sheet of U.S. postage… read more
Date added: April 30, 2019
The historic post office in Piggott, Arkansas was constructed in 1937-8 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. Louis A. Simon served as the supervising architect and Neal A. Melick was supervising engineer. The building also houses an example of… read more
Date added: August 19, 2014; Modified: April 14, 2019
A roadside park near Arkadelphia, was constructed fall, 1936 as NYA Proj. 2777-Y-10. The exact location and current status of the park are unknown to the Living New Deal.
Date added: May 22, 2013; Modified: April 14, 2019
This large school was built by the WPA in 1939 and is still in us. “Arkansas’s WPA program began in July 1935 under state administrator William R. Dyess and provided money for numerous social services and infrastructure improvement projects. Social… read more
Date added: June 12, 2017; Modified: April 13, 2019
The 1,121-foot Arch Street Overpass was constructed in 1940. Careful analysis of the bridge plate (plaque) as per historic Google Street View imagery suggests that this project was funded by the Public Roads Administration of the Federal Works Agency; the… read more
Date added: December 3, 2011; Modified: April 13, 2019
“This project consisted of the construction of an impounding reservoir on the Saline River, 40 miles from Little Rock, a 40-mile transmission line, and the filter plant illustrated on this page. The plant, constructed at an approximate cost of $225,000,… read more
Date added: June 12, 2017; Modified: April 13, 2019
The bridge carrying Arkansas State Highway 7 across the Fourche La Fave River, west of Nimrod, Arkansas, was constructed in 1940. The bridge plate (plaque) states that this project was funded by the Public Roads Administration of the Federal Works… read more
Date added: August 17, 2018
The park remained largely unimproved until the mid-1930s, when the Civilian Conservation Corps boys arrived (though there seems to be some uncertainty about exactly when the actual construction work began, two different contemporaneous sources reveal that as of the spring… read more
Date added: July 31, 2018; Modified: July 31, 2018
“The Livestock and Forestry Research Station – known as the Batesville Station – is a 3,000-acre unit developed to do research with beef cattle management/production and forestry. The primary focus of this unit is to do large-scale replicated forage utilizing… read more
Date added: October 10, 2014; Modified: July 26, 2018
Julius Woeltz painted this 12′ x 6′ oil on canvas mural, entitled “The Bauxite Mines,” in 1942 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural was originally installed in the Benton post office and it now hangs in the… read more
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: July 26, 2018
The historic post office—later Municipal Building, and presently Cleburne County Historical Center—in Heber Springs, Arkansas was constructed during the Great Depression with federal Treasury Department funds.
Date added: April 19, 2018
The Works Progress Administration built a new school in Jessieville for the Jessieville School District No. 45, Garland County. The new school was called Rock School and was built on land donated by the US Forest Service. Construction was completed… read more