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Date added: December 15, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
The post office in Staunton was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Ralf Henricksen’s mural, “Going to Work,” completed in 1941 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine… read more
Date added: December 15, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
Ralf Henriksen painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “Going to Work,” in 1941 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the lobby of the Staunton post office.
Date added: January 16, 2019; Modified: May 16, 2022
Now known as the Springer Cultural Center, what was then the main post office for Champaign, Illinois received a New Deal-era addition. Actually, the building received an addition in 1929, though it was razed seven years later to accommodate the… read more
Date added: July 24, 2018; Modified: May 16, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) relayed the red vitrified brick street pavement at an unknown date on Crescent Place and Woodbine Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois. An embedded marker reads “Relayed by WPA.”
Date added: February 21, 2016; Modified: May 16, 2022
The historic Uptown Station post office in Chicago, Illinois was constructed in 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service and houses an example of New Deal artwork.
Date added: February 21, 2016; Modified: May 16, 2022
Chicago’s Kedzie-Grace Post Office (also known as the Daniel J. Doffyn Station) was constructed by the Treasury in 1936.
Date added: February 28, 2016; Modified: May 16, 2022
The historic Morgan Park post office in Chicago, Illinois was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1936. The building is still in service.
Date added: February 14, 2016; Modified: May 16, 2022
This historic Logan Square Station post office in Chicago, Illinois was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1933. The building is still in service.
Date added: March 10, 2014; Modified: May 10, 2022
The Uptown Post Office Murals “Carl Sandburg and Louis Sullivan” were WPA New Deal Art Projects completed in 1943 by Henry Varnum Poor. These are significant murals created by the WPA which celebrates both agriculture and poetry (Uptown PO Chicago)…. read more
Date added: December 17, 2013; Modified: May 10, 2022
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration was the greatest and most ambitious agency to come out of FDR’s New Deal that employed mostly the unskilled. One sector of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the Federal Art Project… read more
Date added: March 15, 2015; Modified: April 30, 2022
Effingham, Illinois’s historic junior high school building was originally constructed as the city’s high school in 1939. Sometimes attributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the building was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The building bears a… read more
Date added: April 30, 2022; Modified: April 30, 2022
The Work Project Administration constructed a gymnasium at what is now the Dieterich Junior-Senior High School complex, in 1939. The facility was designed by Deal & Deal of Lincoln, Illinois and can be found the west side of Pine Street,… read more
Date added: April 30, 2022; Modified: April 30, 2022
The federal government financed the construction of a post office at the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Section Avenue in Effingham, Illinois during the Great Depression. Constructed at a cost of $79,800, the building bore a 1934 cornerstone and… read more
Date added: December 17, 2013; Modified: March 3, 2022
On March 8, 1936, The Chicago Daily Tribune announced the arrival of The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) at two major theaters in Chicago: the Great Northern and the Blackstone. Over the life of the FTP, the Blackstone Theater was used… read more
Date added: December 3, 2021; Modified: December 3, 2021
A Public Works Administration grant helped fund the construction of Mount Greenwood Elementary School at 108th Street and South Homan Avenue in Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood. The new school was designed by Board of Education architect John Charles Christensen. The… read more