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Date added: August 23, 2016; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office in Lake Providence, Louisiana was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. It was completed in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
Date added: August 16, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office in Jeanerette, Louisiana was constructed in 1939 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
Date added: August 15, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office building in Haynesville, Louisiana was constructed in 1936 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural inside, is still in use today.
Date added: May 4, 2014; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office in Eunice, Louisiana was constructed in 1938-9 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.
Date added: April 2, 2014; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic Donaldsonville post office was constructed by the Treasury in 1937. The building is still in use.
Date added: August 15, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office in Bunkie, Louisiana was constructed in 1937 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
Date added: August 15, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office in Arcadia, Louisiana was constructed in 1937 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
Date added: March 31, 2014; Modified: April 11, 2017
The Arabi post office was constructed during 1936 and 1937 with federal funding. The building is still in use today
Date added: April 13, 2014; Modified: April 11, 2017
According to a plaque outside its front entrance, the Napoleon Middle School Gymnasium was constructed in 1939 “from the proceeds of a parish wide bond issue and a P.W.A. grant.”
Date added: March 10, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
“The park’s history is tied to Camp Morehouse, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that was located nearby, and a company of young men who began construction of the park in the 1930s. The Morehouse Enterprise reports June 8, 1933 that… read more
Date added: March 24, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
A state website explains that the “Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site explores the cultural interplay among the diverse peoples along the famed Bayou Teche. Acadians and Creoles, Indians and Africans, Frenchmen and Spaniards, slaves and free people of color-all contributed to… read more
Date added: July 28, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
According to National Archive files, between 1935 and 1938 WPA crews “landscaped the battleground, installed drains and built drives through the historic site.”
Date added: March 24, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
WPA photos and captions from the 1930s show that the WPA helped restore the historic Fort Pike site in the 1930s. The 1938 WPA guide to the city of New Orleans describes the site: “Fort Pike, 36.1 m., occupies the… read more
Date added: April 5, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
“On the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain, this 2800-acre park encompasses the remains of a nineteenth-century plantation, Fontainebleau, named after the Parisian forest… The plantation was converted to a park beginning in 1938, one of Louisiana’s first state parks. Originally… read more
Date added: August 9, 2016; Modified: April 11, 2017
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed facilities at the Gum Springs Recreation Area, located in Kisatchie National Forest. The CCC also planted trees.