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Date added: May 29, 2018; Modified: June 8, 2018
During the New Deal, the Work Progress Administration (WPA) restored the historic buildings at the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, forming three sides of Jackson Square: the Upper and Lower Pontalba Buildings, the Cabildo and the Presbytère… read more
Date added: June 12, 2012; Modified: June 8, 2018
The Cabildo has a long and notorious history. It was constructed in 1795-99 as the seat of the Spanish municipal government in New Orleans. The name of the governing body who met there was the “Illustrious Cabildo” or city council. It… read more
Date added: May 29, 2018; Modified: May 30, 2018
The former Presbytère or Rectory of the late 18th century St. Louis Cathedral is now part of the Louisiana State Museum complex, along with the old Cabildo Building. The Cabildo flanks St. Louis on the west and the Presbytère on… read more
Date added: May 30, 2016; Modified: May 29, 2018
Jackson Barracks was established in the early 19th century. It was transferred from the US Army to the state National Guard in the 1920s. “From 1936 to 1940, Louisiana adjutant general Raymond H. Fleming utilized the federal Works Progress Administration… read more
Date added: January 12, 2014; Modified: May 29, 2018
This limestone sculpture “Harvesting Sugar Cane” by Armin Scheler was created for the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building and paid for with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds. It still graces the northeastern flank of the building.
Date added: January 12, 2014; Modified: May 29, 2018
This limestone sculpture “Flood Control” by Karl Lang was created for the F. Edward Herbert Federal Building with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds. It still graces the southeastern corner of the building.
Date added: April 15, 2013; Modified: May 29, 2018
The McFadden Cabin was built by a City Park benefactor in the 1920’s as a recreational facility for New Orleans Girl Scouts (still in use today). The WPA made improvements as part of its many works projects in the park,… read more
Date added: January 1, 2016; Modified: May 29, 2018
Constructed in 1935-37 with WPA labor, the 26,500-seat stadium came as part of a massive New Deal project to expand New Orleans’s City Park. Richard Koch, an architect on the park board and the architectural firm of Weiss, Dreyfous and… read more
Date added: July 26, 2012; Modified: May 29, 2018
The Wikipedia entry on City Park provides a good summary of park history, including the role of the WPA in making improvements to the park: “City Park, a 1,300 acre (5.3 km²) public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the 6th-largest… read more
Date added: June 13, 2012; Modified: April 12, 2018
This bridge across the Mississippi River was started under President Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1931, and completed in 1935 with PWA funds. “Opened in December 1935 to replace the Walnut Street Ferry, the bridge was named for the extremely… read more
Date added: January 12, 2014; Modified: April 12, 2018
This marble eagle statue — one of four at the entrances to the F. Edward Herbert Federal Building — was produced with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds by Gifford Proctor.
Date added: January 7, 2014; Modified: February 21, 2018
Bartlett, Texas’s Tribune and News in mid-1939 noted an “unusual” PWA-financed project under construction in Avoca, Louisiana: a ferry boat.
Date added: December 3, 2014; Modified: December 22, 2017
The modernist Iberia Parish Courthouse was undertaken in New Iberia, Louisiana during the Great Depression with the assistance of funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The three story, Art-Deco style building had white stucco walls and was completed… read more
Date added: August 15, 2012; Modified: August 31, 2017
Stuart R. Purser painted “Steamboats on the Mississippi” in 1939 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. “It has been moved to the “new” Finance Station Post Office which is in the old train depot downtown. Hurricane Katrina… read more
Date added: December 31, 2015; Modified: August 31, 2017
Located in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, downriver from the French Quarter, Lautenschlaeger Market was constructed in 1901 as a public open air market. In the late 1930s, the City of New Orleans owned 19 public markets, many of which had… read more