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Date added: January 22, 2023; Modified: January 22, 2023
The park features a Works Progress Administration (WPA) shelter protecting sandstone petroglyphs. The petroglyphs are thought to have been created by the Fort Ancient people. The WPA completed other work at the site.
Date added: July 28, 2014; Modified: January 16, 2023
Constructed by the WPA circa 1936.
Date added: November 25, 2022; Modified: November 25, 2022
Football stadium constructed 1938-1939 by the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration for $246,000. Currently home of the Massillon Washington High School football team.
Date added: November 21, 2022; Modified: November 21, 2022
The Works Progress Administration built an athletic stadium and swimming pool in 1937 in Greenville OH. The Athletic field has recently undergone renovations and is still in use by the Greenville High School in Greenville, Ohio. In 2017, the original… read more
Date added: June 18, 2013; Modified: November 16, 2022
The historic post office building in Hubbard, Ohio houses an example of New Deal artwork, Hubert Mesibov’s painting, “Steel Industry for Hubbard.” The work, one of 19 commissioned for northeastern Ohio post offices, was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section… read more
Date added: September 5, 2022; Modified: September 5, 2022
The Leslie L. Diehl Band Shell was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Dayton OH.
Date added: June 10, 2022
In 1938, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a barn at Warder Nursery in Cincinnati OH. The project was one of several undertaken by the WPA in the city. “Three WPA projects for park improvements at Cincinnati, Ohio, have been… read more
Date added: June 6, 2022; Modified: June 6, 2022
The Works Progress Administration built the Glendale Steps in Akron, OH. Originally constructed to link the Walnut Street neighbourhood at the top of a 200′ bluff near downtown Akron to Glendale Park at the base of the bluff. The site… read more
Date added: May 30, 2022; Modified: May 30, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Main Street Steps in Cincinnati OH. Access up and down Mt. Auburn. Excerpt from Cincinnati Magazine: “These are Cincinnati’s first concrete steps, poured as a WPA project in the 1940s, and longest, at… read more
Date added: April 12, 2022; Modified: May 17, 2022
In 1934, it was reported that the American Locomotive Company “is building 15 freight engines for the ‘Nickel Plate’ Railroad, in its plant at Schenectady, N.Y… All of these engines are being built with a PWA loan to the Nickel… read more
Date added: May 17, 2022; Modified: May 17, 2022
The municipal building at 101 S. Franklin St. in Richwood, Ohio has seen many functions over the years and was the site of New Deal work relief efforts during the Great Depression. Est. in 1890 to function as the seat… read more
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
A terra cotta bas relief entitled “Scioto County Settler” was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is housed in Worthington, Ohio’s historic branch post office.
Date added: February 28, 2021; Modified: May 16, 2022
41.15059302281331, -81.35105749394626The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Science classroom building for Kent State University. “A federal grant, coupled with a $650,000 appropriation from the state, led to approval of plans for a new science building in 1938.”
Date added: April 22, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
Privatized in 2011 and now called Near West Intergenerational School. “On the near west side of Cleveland, we can still see some of the still bearing fruit of Mr. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Kentucky School (Paul Dunbar temporary) is still… read more
Date added: December 15, 2014; Modified: May 16, 2022
Between 1933 and 1939, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided labor for the construction of the Virginia Kendall Park Reserve, now Cuyahoga Valley National Park (est. 2000), in Peninsula, Ohio during the Great Depression. 530 acres of land willed and… read more