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Date added: March 17, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
Under WPA project 5771, the WPA made over $26,000 worth of improvements to the park in 1937. WPA work in the park included the Trinity Park Shelter, and most likely many other improvements as well.
Date added: March 17, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
Sycamore Park received extensive improvements with assistance from the WPA and the NYA. Pictured here is a WPA shelter and drinking fountain built in 1935-36. The structures were designed by Hare & Hare of Kanas City, Missouri. The Fort Worth… read more
Date added: March 3, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
“Alice E. Carlson Elementary was named in honor of the first woman who served on the school board. It originally opened as a 4-room school in 1926. The 1-story polychrome brown brick building was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and… read more
Date added: March 6, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
The WPA built a shelter in the park and did landscaping. According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram work on the park went from 1937-38. (Despite the fact that the WPA plaque on the shelter in contrast has the dates… read more
Date added: March 17, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
The WPA constructed a large stone terrace as well as undertaking numerous other improvements at Oakland Lake Park in 1937-38. The Fort Worth Park Department’s 1937-38 Annual Report elaborates: “A WPA project is working in this park at the present… read more
Date added: March 3, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
“This Arlington Heights area school is an eclectic blend of Colonial Revival and Moderne influences. It was financed by the PWA, designed by Hubert H. Crane and erected by Quisle and Andrews. The central wing of the 2-story building is… read more
Date added: March 3, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
Westover Hills is an independent community but many people who live there use “Fort Worth” in their address (Westover Hills shares the 76107 zip code with a portion of west Fort Worth). The town hall was constructed by the WPA… read more
Date added: March 17, 2013; Modified: March 17, 2013
The Jack County Courthouse was designed in 1939 by Wichita Falls firm Voelker and Dixon. The county applied for a grant in 1938 from the Federal Works Agency and received approximately half of the funding from the PWA, the rest… read more
Date added: February 24, 2013; Modified: February 24, 2013
“The Crossroads Town” was painted by Emil Bisttram, a Hungarian-born New Mexico artist who served as the New Mexico supervisor of the first federal art project (PWAP) (Flynn, 2012). “Even the most peaceful scene–the townscape in the Ranger, Texas, Post… read more
Date added: July 20, 2012
“San Angelo Nature Center, located in the former Lake Rangers Headquarters building at Lake Nasworthy, built by Works Progress Administration. Natural science and history museum emphasizing understanding of Edwards Plateau region.”
Date added: February 10, 2012
"In January 1929 the Brownsville Navigation District was organized to secure a channel up the Rio Grande, 100 feet wide and 25 feet deep from the Gulf to a port near Brownsville. Work was started at the mouth of the… read more
Date added: January 24, 2012
"This bridge across the Neches River, connecting Orange with Port Arthur, has a total length with approaches of approximately 7,750 feet. The main span is 680 feet from pier to pier and the clearance of the bottom chord at mean… read more
Date added: January 19, 2012
"At the time of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Dallas in 1936 certain of the buildings constructed were made permanent, and one of these was the Museum of Natural History. The structure is two stories in height and 71 by… read more
Date added: January 16, 2012
"Before completion of the new municipal building, the town was making use of a temporary sheet-iron structure in which not only the fire apparatus but the permanent municipal records were kept. The new building is two stories in height with… read more