Post Office Mural – Dresden TN
Date added: August 17, 2013; Modified: May 26, 2022
This mural, “Retrospection”, was completed with New Deal funds in 1938. When the post office is closed, the mural can be viewed through a glass door.
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Post Office mural – Mt. Pleasant TN
Date added: July 30, 2013; Modified: May 26, 2022
This mural, “Early Settlers Entering Mt. Pleasant” was completed with New Deal funds in 1942.
Post Office Mural – Gleason TN
Date added: November 19, 2014; Modified: May 26, 2022
Anne Poor painted this mural, “Gleason Agriculture” under the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1942. It was one of the last murals painted in Tennessee for the Treasury Section. “The theme of the painting is the sweet potato industry… read more
Post Office – Jefferson City TN
Date added: August 26, 2013; Modified: May 16, 2022
This New Deal Post Office in Jefferson City was built with Treasury Department funds in 1939.
Post Office Mural – Jefferson City TN
Date added: August 26, 2013; Modified: May 16, 2022
The mural “Great Smokies and Tennessee Farms” was commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts for the Jefferson City, Tennessee post office. The work was completed and installed in the post office lobby in 1941.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Rockefeller Memorial – Gatlinburg TN
Date added: August 27, 2015; Modified: May 16, 2022
Rockefeller Memorial, in Newfound Gap, honors a $5 million gift from the Rockefeller Foundation to complete land acquisitions for the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), as were the roads, trails,… read more
High School (former) – Clarksville TN
Date added: June 16, 2019; Modified: May 14, 2022
The Clarksville High School received a 1935 addition to the building, funded by PWA, city, and Board of Education. PWA funded $14,000 of the total cost of $50,525. State PWA engineer was Thomas H. Allen, and Katterjohn was the low-bid… read more
Airport (closed) – Jellico TN
Date added: April 12, 2017; Modified: May 14, 2022
Tennessee Encyclopedia: “Some of Tennessee’s largest WPA projects reflected the arrival of the age of flight. WPA workers helped complete landing fields and airports at Jellico, Cookeville, Lebanon, Jackson, and Milan.” The location of the facility, which has long closed,… read more
Madison County Courthouse – Jackson TN
Date added: January 16, 2012; Modified: May 13, 2022
The historic Madison County Courthouse at 100 E Main St. in Jackson, Tennessee was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project during the Great Depression. “This project consisted of a building 160 by 65 feet in plan and… read more
Chickamauga Dam – Chattanooga TN
Date added: November 6, 2014; Modified: May 13, 2022
Chickamauga Dam is located on the Tennessee River in south-central Tennessee just east of downtown Chattanooga. Construction began in 1936 as a part of Tennessee Valley Authority’s area improvements and was completed in 1940. Before the dam’s construction, the city… read more
Cameron High School – Nashville TN
Date added: April 13, 2015; Modified: March 3, 2022
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provide funding for the construction of Cameron Middle School in South Nashville, an historically African American school in what was then a fully segregated city. It was one of many PWA grants for Black schools… read more
Municipal Public Works Garage Industrial District (former) – Nashville TN
Date added: January 11, 2015; Modified: March 1, 2022
The former Municipal Public Works Garage Industrial District is comprised of six single-story, brick buildings built c. 1940. The garages are on the west bank of the Cumberland River, in Nashville. Buildings 1 through 4 run lengthwise northwest to southeast… read more
Fort Negley Reconstruction – Nashville TN
Date added: December 17, 2014; Modified: March 1, 2022
The New Deal did a great deal of work restoring and improving historic battlefields around the country in the 1930s. As part of this effort, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) restored Fort Negley in 1937-38. This was an important Confederate… read more
Tennessee State University Improvements – Nashville TN
Date added: December 17, 2014; Modified: March 1, 2022
Tennessee State University was established in 1909 as Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College, a land-grant college. It is the only state-funded historically Black college or university in Tennessee. The New Deal helped a great deal to build up the… read more
Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet School (former Pearl High School) – Nashville TN
Date added: December 17, 2014; Modified: March 1, 2022
Presently known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet High School, Nashville’s historic Pearl High School was built in 1936-37 with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Pearl High School was built expressly to serve Nashville’s African American community (which was… read more