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Date added: August 5, 2021
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Central Fire Headquarters in 1938. The facility provided offices for the Fire Chief and other officers. It also served as San Antonio Fire Station #1 from 1938 until 2011. Currently it houses the San… read more
Date added: August 2, 2021
The Morse Bridge is a 285 foot steel through arch bridge over the Androscoggin River on ME 108 Bridge Street in Rumford. Although constructed by the city and state in 1935, a year later in March 1936, was moved off… read more
Date added: August 2, 2021
The Dyess colony commissary or trading post or the Big Store was where the colonist got their household needs especially the daily consumables.
Date added: August 1, 2021
The former Mercer Playground at 2nd Avenue North and Harrison Street in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood was the site of several small WPA maintenance and improvement projects. In 1938, WPA workers painted the playground shelter house, as part of a… read more
Date added: August 1, 2021
The Dyess Colony Hospital served not only as a local medical care facility, but also a cost-effective alternative to the hospitals in the area. The cost of general medical services was about half of the state’s rate, and the price… read more
Date added: July 31, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the South Fork Ranger Station on the Alpine Loop Road (Highway 92), near the intersection of Highway 144, in 1933-34. The CCC enrollees who did the work were from Company 940 stationed in Camp… read more
Date added: July 31, 2021
In 1936, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the original Kamas ranger station for the U.S. Forest Service, just south of Heber UT on Highway 40. (Baldridge, p. 123) The work was done by enrollees stationed at CCC Camp F-43… read more
Date added: July 31, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the amphitheater at Mutual Dell camp in 1936. It is a modest sized outdoor theater with a concrete and stone stage and wooden plank seating for about 200 people. It was constructed by CCC… read more
Date added: July 30, 2021
In 1934-36, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the beautiful amphitheater at Aspen Grove – today known as the Theater in the Pines. The amphitheater has an elegant stone stage that includes back and side walls with entrances for actors… read more
Date added: July 29, 2021
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in making improvements to Timpanogos Cave National Monument in the 1930s. They worked under the supervision of the National Park Service (NPS). A notable contribution of the WPA was… read more
Date added: July 29, 2021
Timpanogos Cave was designated a national monument on October 14, 1922 and was initially developed and maintained by the U.S. Forest Service and volunteer organizations. The National Park Service took over responsibility for the monument in 1933 but did not… read more
Date added: July 27, 2021
Noah’s Big Test
Date added: July 26, 2021
Mobile, AZ was settled by African-Americans, but by the 1930s there was also a substantial white population. Town population was apparently only about 40, although there seems to have been about 100 homesteaders. The Works Progress Administration dealt with the… read more
Date added: July 25, 2021
The National Youth Administration (NYA) built park facilities in Lincoln City Park in Lincoln KS. West of the entrance is a bandstand built by the NYA in 1938, and restrooms built by the NYA in 1937.
Date added: July 23, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) made extensive improvements to the newly-formed Mount Tamalpais State Park on Mt. Tamalpais – a favorite hiking spot for San Franciscans all the way back to the Gold Rush era (1850s). A major feature of… read more
Check out our latest map and guide to the work of the New Deal in Washington, D.C. It includes 500 New Deal sites in the District alone, highlighting 34 notable sites, and includes an inset map of the area around the National Mall which can be used for self-guided walking tours.
Take a look at our previous guides, equally comprehensive, covering key New Deal sites in San Francisco and New York City.
