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Date added: March 14, 2014; Modified: May 23, 2021
The New Deal is responsible for a magnificent array of artworks that embellish the Department of Justice building. The Treasury Section of Fine Arts commissioned artists to create 68 murals between 1936 and 1941 for $68,000, or one percent of the… read more
Date added: May 29, 2013; Modified: May 22, 2021
Anacostia Park is one of Washington DC’s two largest parks and recreation areas, along with Rock Creek Park. It covers over 1200 acres along the Anacostia River from South Capitol Street SE to the Maryland boundary in NE. The New… read more
Date added: February 26, 2015; Modified: May 21, 2021
The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC, by some of the finest American artists of the time. Maynard Dixon painted “Themes of the Bureau of… read more
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: May 21, 2021
The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC, by some of the finest American artists of the time. John Steuart Curry painted “The Rush for the… read more
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: May 21, 2021
The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC, by some of the finest American artists of the time. From 1939 to 1941, Woodrow Wilson Crumbo of… read more
Date added: July 22, 2013; Modified: May 21, 2021
Elizabeth Fulda was commissioned to make glass mosaics – 9 by 6 foot panels – to be placed over two entrance doors to the new addition to the Bird House done in 1936. Those were never done. Instead, her designs… read more
Date added: May 25, 2013; Modified: May 21, 2021
From 1933 to 1941, New Deal relief workers added a number of new animal exhibit areas to the National Zoo, as well as improving existing enclosures. The following are sketches of the significant work performed at a dozen areas, taken… read more
Date added: December 4, 2011; Modified: May 21, 2021
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded a Small Mammal House at the National Zoo, constructed in 1937. It was one of several buildings paid for by the PWA and many other improvements made at the zoo by New Deal relief… read more
Date added: July 22, 2013; Modified: May 21, 2021
Heinz Warneke created a red granite sculpture for the National Zoo, entitled “Tumbling Bears,” in 1938. It sits at the bottom of a hill near the Large Cat area. A plaque on the sculpture calls it Tumbling Bears, but it… read more
Date added: December 4, 2011; Modified: May 21, 2021
The Elephant House at National Zoo was built in 1936-37 with a grant from the Public Works Administration (PWA). At the time, it was known as the Pachyderm House; it is also sometimes called the Large Mammal House. The… read more
Date added: June 25, 2013; Modified: May 20, 2021
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Potomac River Band Shell in 1938-39. Audiences would sit on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and watch concerts taking place on the band shell, which floated on a barge. Only the band… read more
Date added: July 3, 2012; Modified: May 20, 2021
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial was created in the 1930s with the aid of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and National Park Service (NPS). Theodore Roosevelt Island sits in the middle of the Potomac between Arlington and downtown Washington, just… read more
Date added: May 19, 2021; Modified: May 19, 2021
In 1936 Work: A Journal of Progress reported that in 1933-34 the Civil Works Administration (CWA) relief workers constructed 245 feet of seawall at the Sewer Division property yard and a cable shed at the garage. The exact site was… read more
Date added: March 12, 2020; Modified: May 19, 2021
In 1938, the Public Works Administration (PWA) allotted $200,000 for the construction of a large garage for the garbage trucks of the District of Columbia’s Refuse Division. The garage was completed in September 1939. It is a flat-roofed, single-story, brick Moderne… read more
Date added: June 25, 2013; Modified: May 19, 2021
Works Progress Administration (WPA) records in the National Archives report that in 1937 WPA labor was used to “erect a brick building in the city to be used as a combination carpentry and blacksmith shop by the Sewer Department.” The… read more