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Date added: May 12, 2020
The Village hall, as of now situated off River Road and 66th Street, was worked in 1934 through the assistance of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as per “History of Inver Grove Heights: Minnesota’s Treasure 1858-1990,” by Lois Glewwe. Its… read more
Date added: March 29, 2020
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built sidewalks on the 1500 block of Birchmont Dr. NE in Bemidji MN.
Date added: March 6, 2020
The WPA built the Greenbush School in Greenbush MN. According to the Greenbush Local Government website: “[…] Superintendent Marvin Lueck, President Dr. H. C. Stone, Treasurer O. K. Christianson, and direc tor Matt Kotchevar went to St. Paul to interview… read more
Date added: December 23, 2019; Modified: December 23, 2019
The First Avenue Wall located in front of Riverview was one of many improvements made on the St. Cloud Teacher’s College campus in the 1930s. Under President George Selke, the building of retaining walls such as the ones off First… read more
Date added: September 24, 2019; Modified: September 24, 2019
A Works Progress Administration (WPA) group laid the parkway and constructed the base for a monument to James J. Hill on the banks of Lake George in Saint Cloud’s Eastman Park. Hill, historian Bill Morgan noted, had established the Great… read more
Date added: August 29, 2019; Modified: August 29, 2019
Eighty years ago a park was developed by Minnesota Department of Transportation that would become of historic significance some years later. That park is Graeser Park, named after Carl Graeser, designer of State Highway 100, aka Beltline and Lilac Parkway…. read more
Date added: March 16, 2019; Modified: March 16, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built the County Fair Exhibition Building at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Tyler, MN.
Date added: November 29, 2013; Modified: August 31, 2018
Throughout the 1930s, CCC and WPA crews made extensive improvements to the already popular Minnehaha Park, site of Minnehaha Falls. Federal workers built impressive stone retaining walls throughout the 170-acre park, staircases from the upper park down to the creek,… read more
Date added: November 13, 2014; Modified: July 24, 2018
Al Krueger Field, located at the EOT County Fairgrounds in Perham, Minnesota, was originally constructed as a federal Works Progress Administration project during the Great Depression. The original structure was torn down in 2012 and replaced; the site is now… read more
Date added: July 15, 2018
The Arts-and-Crafts-style City Auditorium in Kelliher, MN, was built in 1938-40 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Date added: July 15, 2018
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed this stone mausoleum in the Greenwood Cemetery in Bemidji, Minnesota, in 1939.
Date added: May 29, 2018; Modified: May 29, 2018
“This Art Deco-style building smack-dab in the middle of the state was originally a Water Treatment Facility built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration. When a new water treatment facility was built across the street in the 1970’s, the… read more
Date added: May 29, 2018
“The quirky Graceville Village Hall was built with reinforced concrete in the Art Deco style in the late 1930’s by the Works Progress Administration.”
Date added: December 28, 2014; Modified: May 24, 2018
Indian Mounds Regional Park sits on limestone and sandstone bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown St. Paul. It features six Native American burial mounds created roughly 1,500-2,000 years ago. The WPA constructed limestone walls throughout the park.
Date added: May 21, 2018
The combination Fire Hall and City Hall in Mahnomen was built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The structure was designed by George H. Carter and Company in WPA moderne style and built out of field stone hand-cut by… read more