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Date added: February 2, 2019; Modified: June 1, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built a gymnasium in Hugo, CO, Lincoln County. The modernist, reinforced concrete and adobe structure cost $33,452. The gymnasium was adobe construction with two inch concrete panels on the exterior. The balcony seating capacity was 1500… read more
Date added: January 20, 2019; Modified: May 31, 2019
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Hoehne School and Gymnasium in Hoehne, Las Animas CO. The gymnasium addition was two-stories high. Other WPA-built facilities included a shop and home economics classrooms.
Date added: May 25, 2019; Modified: May 31, 2019
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built an exhibit for the State Historical Society Museum Exhibit in Denver. The WPA workers built a model of the Wells Fargo Express Concord Coach.
Date added: February 3, 2019; Modified: May 29, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built a school in Stratton CO, in Kit Carson County, School District # 57. The reinforced concrete structure includes four classrooms and a combination auditorium and gymnasium, which accommodated 4,000 persons. The construction cost was $35,354.
Date added: May 29, 2019; Modified: May 29, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built a municipal swimming pool in Fort Morgan CO. The five-acre pool was built in a swamp area. The condition of the original, WPA-built facility is unknown to the Living New Deal.
Date added: May 24, 2019; Modified: May 27, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built an exhibit for the State Historical Society Museum Exhibit in Denver. The WPA workers built a model of the First Mountain Locomotive used in the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1871.
Date added: May 25, 2019; Modified: May 27, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built an exhibit for the State Historical Society Museum Exhibit in Denver. The WPA workers built a model of the pioneer towns of Denver and Auraria 1860.
Date added: January 6, 2012; Modified: May 23, 2019
The historic Alamosa County Courthouse was constructed during the Great Depression with the aid of the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). “The U-shaped complex is one of the county’s best examples of the Mission style. The courthouse was the largest… read more
Date added: April 27, 2013; Modified: May 23, 2019
“Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette built an adobe fort on this site about 1835 as part of their fur trading enterprise. The two sold the fort in 1841 and it was abandoned a year later. In the late 1930s, the… read more
Date added: May 20, 2019; Modified: May 21, 2019
The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Robert W. Speer Memorial Children’s Hospital in Denver CO. The building was completed in 1939. Today, the building is part of the Denver General Hospital. A cornerstone on the building reads, “Federal… read more
Date added: May 17, 2019; Modified: May 21, 2019
The Public Works Administration funded the construction of a hospital building for the Denver Hospital in Denver CO. The new building was named Samuel D. Nichols and was completed circa 1940. The current location and condition of this facility are… read more
Date added: May 18, 2019; Modified: May 18, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built road improvements in Canon City, CO. The improvements included cutting and filling the road curves, and a bridge.
Date added: May 17, 2019; Modified: May 18, 2019
The Works Progress Administration built an overpass that eliminated a grade crossing in Pueblo, Pueblo County CO.
Date added: May 12, 2019
The Works Progress Administration made improvements on Gunbarrel Road in Gunbarrel CO. Pictured are work crews building deep-barrow pits for the trench along Gunbarrel Rd.
Date added: December 16, 2018; Modified: March 25, 2019
New Deal funding helped build a nursery in the city of Pueblo, CO. The structure was 13,260 sq ft and was built of native stone. The nursery was built for working mothers and it served approximately 200 children. The federal… read more