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Date added: December 21, 2015; Modified: December 21, 2015
The South Llano River Bridge is a 1424 foot steel through truss bridge with a 24-foot wide roadway that carries Texas State Highway Loop 481 over the South Llano River in Junction, Texas. The bridge replaced a functionally obsolete truss… read more
Date added: July 21, 2012; Modified: December 21, 2015
“The WPA commissioned John Augustus Walker — a native of Mobile, Alabama — to create a series of oil on canvas murals in the city’s Old City Hall/Southern Market complex. They memorialize a range of Mobile’s historic events, from the… read more
Date added: December 19, 2015
The Deweyville Swing Bridge is built over the Sabine River where Texas State Highway 12 and Louisiana Highway 12 meet. The bridge is a deck plate girder swing design. The 160 foot main span pivots on top of a central… read more
Date added: December 19, 2015
San Antonio’s Board of Commissioners created the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) on June 17, 1937. On September 1, 1937, President Roosevelt signed the United States Housing Act of 1937. This created the United States Housing Authority (USHA) and provided… read more
Date added: December 19, 2015; Modified: December 19, 2015
In early 1938, the Houston County commissioners court began making plans for construction of the county’s fifth courthouse. Community leaders led a successful campaign for a bond election of $120,000 to qualify for a Public Works Administration grant. In November… read more
Date added: December 19, 2015; Modified: December 19, 2015
Record flooding of the Salt Fork Red River occurred on June 15, 1938, damaging the bridge for then State Highway 52 (now State Highway 203). Deemed unsalvageable by Texas Highway Department Engineers, plans were made for a replacement bridge. The… read more
Date added: December 19, 2015
A city sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA) project (14752) dismantled a hazardous steel truss bridge crossing a drainage ditch in Clarendon. The WPA then excavated and widened the channel and built a new reinforced concrete slab over masonry substructure bridge…. read more
Date added: December 19, 2015; Modified: December 19, 2015
This late 18th century lighthouse in Montauk Point State Park was repaired by the WPA in the 1930s.
Date added: December 19, 2015; Modified: December 19, 2015
These archive photos show a park area along Canandaigua Lake under development by the WPA in 1937. Exact location of the WPA work is unknown to the Living New Deal. It may be Kershaw Park on the north shore.
Date added: December 19, 2015
The WPA photo shown here shows the new Firemen’s Building constructed for the Erie County Fairgrounds. The building remains in place today and “houses antique fire engines and other artifacts” (www.ecfair.org)
Date added: December 17, 2015
A 2004 New York Times article by Seth Kugel describes a “…metallic-looking mural of four chiseled men working on an oil rig… affixed to the back wall of a dank, cluttered storage room under a school library in Soundview, the… read more
Date added: November 5, 2015; Modified: December 17, 2015
Bertram Goodman completed this mural, entitled “Evolution of the Book,” in 1936 with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Date added: November 10, 2015; Modified: December 16, 2015
By the 1930s, the Old Erie Canal that once formed the heart of the Village of Jordan was no longer a functioning canal. It was given new life by being converted into a landscaped park in the 1930s, with significant… read more
Date added: December 16, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) photo pictured here describes this project as “removal of island and building of dyke.” The work took place in Como Lake Park in Lancaster, New York. The current status and exact location of the dike… read more
Date added: December 16, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a retaining wall at Memorial Field in Mount Vernon, New York during the 1930s. Recent plans for the renovation of Memorial Field have been fitful. The current status of the retaining wall is… read more