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Date added: October 31, 2017
The northbound I-74 bridge, a.k.a. Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge, was constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project. The P.W.A. supplied a $1,124,000 loan and $403,400 grant for the project, whose total cost was $1,471,244. Construction occurred between June 1934 and… read more
Date added: October 31, 2017
The historic post office building in Moline, Illinois was constructed in 1934 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
Date added: October 31, 2017
“Located at the Moline post office is a mural entitled “Ploughshare Manufacturing” by Edward Millman. Created in 1937, this mural is an “egg tempera on gesso” … Born in Chicago in 1907, Edward Millman attended the School of the Art… read more
Date added: July 21, 2012; Modified: October 31, 2017
“Located at the East Moline post office is a mural entitled “Early Settlers of Moline along the Mississippi” by Edgar Britton. Created in 1936, this mural is considered a “fresco.” Britton was born in 1901in Kearney, Nebraska. He studied at… read more
Date added: January 15, 2015; Modified: October 25, 2017
An unknown artist painted this oil on canvas mural, located in Room M284 of New Trier High School, in 1937 with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. The mural measures 8′ by 8’6″.
Date added: April 29, 2014; Modified: September 18, 2017
“Built in 1938 of limestone and granite, the three-story, 118,000-square-foot Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Peoria, Ill., was designed in the Art Moderne style, a streamlined look popular from the late 1920s through the mid 1940s. Public areas feature… read more
Date added: May 9, 2017
The W.P.A. constructed sidewalks in Mascoutah, IL, including at City Hall.
Date added: May 8, 2017; Modified: May 8, 2017
The bridge carrying S. Torrance Avenue across the Calumet River constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project. Completed in 1936, the “vertical lift bridge is the only non-bascule bridge built by the Chicago Public Works Department (now CDOT). The… read more
Date added: December 9, 2011; Modified: April 11, 2017
"The Rockford Armory is one unit of a program to house adequately the National Guard of the State of Illinois. Up to 1938, 15 armories had been constructed in the State and at a present three more are under construction… read more
Date added: March 15, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic Rock Island Armory was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds between 1936 and 1937. The PWA supplied a $147,272 grant for the project, whose total cost was $359,626. The structure was demolished in… read more
Date added: January 22, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
Danville, Illinois’s Veterans’ Administration Facility was improved as part of Federal Project F-55. The federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted interior and exterior painting and decoration work at buildings on the grounds. The project “carried authorization of $3,100 for materials… read more
Date added: January 22, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
Cairo, Illinois’s old (and since-demolished) Marine Hospital was located between 10th and 12th St., Cedar St. and Jefferson Ave. As part of Federal Project F-26: Improving Facilities for Sheltering Transients, the federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) rehabilitated the hospital in… read more
Date added: March 21, 2016; Modified: April 11, 2017
Artist William Schwartz painted this mural titled “Old Settlers” for the Fairfield post office in 1936, under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: February 9, 2015; Modified: April 11, 2017
Naperville’s historic Washington Street Station post office was constructed as the city’s main post office in 1939-40. The post office now occupies space in the south side of the building, believed to be a later addition; a bank occupies the… read more
Date added: December 9, 2011; Modified: April 11, 2017
"This is one of the more interesting post-office buildings in which the design avoids tradition. It is fireproof except for the roof, which is slow-burning construction. The exterior walls are a blue-gray brick trimmed with Indiana limestone and the spandrels… read more