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Date added: February 28, 2016; Modified: February 28, 2016
Mount Rose Elementary School is one of two remaining Mission Revival style schools the other being McKinley Park School. The school was built in 1912 and designed by local architect G Ferris. Work was done under the new deal projects… read more
Date added: February 22, 2016; Modified: February 22, 2016
An elementary school built in the Mission Style in 1909, McKinley Park School had its playground rebuilt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Public Works Administration (PWA) programs. Walkways around the building were also built. Today the playground is… read more
Date added: February 7, 2016; Modified: February 7, 2016
At Evans Park the WPA and the City of Reno built a circular cement wading pool fifty feet in diameter. A sprinkling system was installed and gravel walks laid out. Today the park which sits just to the south of… read more
Date added: January 29, 2016; Modified: January 29, 2016
Stewart Park, formerly a city dump, was completed in 1937 through the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: October 11, 2015
Cathedral Gorge State Park, outside Pioche, Nevada, was first constructed during the 1930s by the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). “Cathedral Gorge is also the site of a water tower that the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built and used when… read more
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: August 5, 2015
The Wild Horse Dam and Reservoir was originally constructed in 1937 by a New Deal agency, believed by Living New Deal to be the CCC. “The reservoir was initially created in 1937 by the construction of Wild Horse Dam. In… read more
Date added: March 19, 2014; Modified: July 29, 2015
The PWA granted a loan of $55,000 for a new Mineral County high school building in 1934. In 1940 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a tennis court at the school at a cost of $1,902. The building is still… read more
Date added: September 11, 2014; Modified: January 29, 2015
What is now the Virginia City Middle School was an educational facility constructed between April and September 1936 as part of a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The building replaced the historic 1876 Fourth Ward School (now a museum)…. read more
Date added: June 19, 2012; Modified: January 29, 2015
“The Forest Service’s CCC program blazed new roads and trails into prospective campgrounds, existing mines, or susceptible fore zones. The Forest Service with its ample staff of engineers and natural resource specialists provided technical expertise for CCC projects. Similarly, the… read more
Date added: June 19, 2012; Modified: January 29, 2015
“The Forest Service’s CCC program blazed new roads and trails into prospective campgrounds, existing mines, or susceptible fore zones. The Forest Service with its ample staff of engineers and natural resource specialists provided technical expertise for CCC projects. Similarly, the… read more
Date added: June 19, 2012; Modified: January 29, 2015
“One of the CCC’s most important contributions was the well-engineered twenty-six-million-gallon capacity reservoir and dam in Rose Creek Meadow. The Rose Creek Reservoir was an incredible undertaking due to its location more than halfway up the mountainside. The labor-intensive water… read more
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
“The Community of Elko got a new swimming pool and dressing rooms” was a result of New Deal construction in northern Nevada. Further information about this project is needed.
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
Now the Hawthorne Army Depot, what was then the Naval Ammunition Depot was developed and improved by multiple New Deal agencies during the Great Depression. noehill.com: “By 1930, Hawthorne’s population had grown to 757, with the Depot contributing 72 military… read more
Date added: January 14, 2015; Modified: January 17, 2015
“An outdoor, amphitheatre built near Ely” was a result of New Deal construction in northern Nevada. Further information about this project is needed.
Date added: January 14, 2015
The facilities of Camp Lee Canyon were constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration.