Date added: May 8, 2017; Modified: March 1, 2024
The original General Sullivan Bridge was completed as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project in 1935, designed to carry traffic over the Piscataqua River. The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic in 1984 and closed to all users in September… read more
Date added: February 27, 2024; Modified: March 1, 2024
Eau Claire Senior High School was constructed in 1925-1926 to replace an aging structure on Lake and 4th St. The new high school had extensive basement renovation in the summer of 1938 carried out by the National Youth Administration (NYA),… read more
Date added: February 7, 2024; Modified: March 1, 2024
The Draper Junior High School building was originally constructed in 1938/1939 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA), which was by then a part of the Federal Works Agency. When the Junior High School was later closed, the building… read more
Date added: February 14, 2014; Modified: February 29, 2024
This mural “The Harvest” was originally painted for what was then the Abbeville post office by Louis Raynaud in 1939. Presently, it hangs in the Abbeville Museum downtown. “The Harvest shows men and women harvesting cotton, sugarcane, and muskrat hides. … read more
Date added: December 17, 2013; Modified: February 29, 2024
Ilya Bolotowsky’s oil painting study for the Hall of Sciences mural at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York is today housed in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is all that remains of Bolotowsky’s mural commissioned… read more
Date added: February 19, 2017; Modified: February 28, 2024
The historic U.S. Border Inspection Station on Beebe Road, which connects with Quebec Route 247, in Beebe Plain, Vermont, north of Newport, Vermont, was built in 1937 with U.S. Treasury Department funds.
Date added: August 19, 2010; Modified: February 28, 2024
The Gorman School was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1939. The Mission Revival style design (red tile roof, beige stucco) was common for New Deal buildings in California. The stone retaining wall and sidewalk are probably WPA,… read more
Date added: July 30, 2011; Modified: February 27, 2024
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded a Recreational Building in Huntington Beach, California. The building was completed in 1938 and cost $58,889. The large building was said to have the capacity to accommodate 1000 people. It was commonly referred to… read more
Date added: September 20, 2010; Modified: February 27, 2024
The New Deal post office in Whittier, California, was constructed in 1935 with federal Treasury Department funds. It was designed by R. L. Warren, with Louis A. Simon, one of the Roosevelt Administration’s chief New Deal architects, serving as Supervising… read more
Date added: February 21, 2010; Modified: February 27, 2024
The Whittier post office formerly held a tempera mural, “Boy with Sheep,” painted by Thomas Laman in 1938 with funding from the Section of Fine Arts and the Treasury Relief Art Project. It has since been painted over.
Date added: November 27, 2016; Modified: February 25, 2024
The Public Works Administration paid for a seismograph building on the campus of the University of Utah. It sat next to the old Bureau of Mines building. Both were demolished to make way for the Frederick Albert Sutton building for the… read more
Date added: February 25, 2024; Modified: February 25, 2024
The Stuart Guard Station was originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the early 1930s and was in regular use by the U.S. Forest Service for several decades thereafter. The Stuart Guard Station has a small museum right next… read more
Date added: July 15, 2023; Modified: February 24, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School (formerly Santa Barbara Avenue Elementary School), which opened in 1914, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1934 and 1935. According to the Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory, Martin Luther… read more
Date added: July 11, 2023; Modified: February 24, 2024
James A. Foshay Learning Center (formerly Junior High School), which opened in 1925, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1934-35. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District for… read more
Date added: August 3, 2008; Modified: February 24, 2024
Dorsey High School’s modernistic main building and auditorium were constructed to be earthquake-proof with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA). The central building features glass brick and two single-story wings. The auditorium is located to the south of the… read more