Thomas Jefferson High School was one of many schools in Los Angeles, CA, that benefited from refurbishment funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) following the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los… read more
The Madera County Hospital was built using Public Works Administration funds and Works Progress Administration labor. The PWA built building is now the headquarters of the Madera County Public Health Department. There was a bronze plaque inside the building where the… read more
The Public Works Administration (PWA) appears to have been involved in earthquake retrofitting as well as some more decorative additions at Washington Middle School in Long Beach, CA, after the school was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The… read more
The large Eureka Municipal Auditorium was built with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1935-36. While it retains the old name, etched in bas-relief above the entrance, the building now appears to be used as a gymnasium for… read more
The U.S. Treasury Department built the Santa Clara post office in 1935. The building style is Mission Revival, which was popular for houses and civic buildings during the interwar period. It is also the site of Michael von Meyer’s 1937… read more
This New Deal post office was built in 1935 and boasts the usual Henry Morgenthau Jr. cornerstone. John W. Smart was the architect, Louis A. Simon the supervising architect, and Neal A. Melick the supervising engineer.
This very large mural by Stanton Macdonald-Wright “Invention and Imagination” consists of 30 panels and covers 2,000 square feet. In it’s original installation, it covered all wall space in the reading room of the previous Santa Monica Public Library at… read more
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked on the Chico airport in 1934 and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved and finished the work in 1935. The specifics of what they did are only partially known to the Living New Deal. WPA… read more
From the application for National Historic Register: Old Santa Ana City Hall was constructed in 1935 at a cost of $126,000, funded by city bonds and a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant. It was designed by architect W. Horace Austin… read more
