Completion Year: 1935

The post office in Wayne, Nebraska was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened in 1935, is still in use today.

The post office in Superior, Nebraska was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened in 1935, is still in use today.

The post office in Lexington, Nebraska was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened in 1935, is still in use today.

The post office in David City, Nebraska was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened in 1935, is still in use today. In 1933, as a part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, the federal government appropriated $16,678,675 to build 237 government buildings in the United States. Nebraska received $233,600 to build five modest post offices in Wayne, Lexington, Superior, David City, and Seward. Because of the Depression, the federal government and the public found it improper for these post offices to be large so, according to the Wayne Herald, “the plan…is to erect ‘needed post offices of a sensible, utilitarian...

"One such building was the Minersville City Hall funded in Beaver County by FERA. It was built in 1935 to house the town's post office, library, municipal offices, and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers camp. To save costs, stone for the hall was brought from a demolished building of the old Murdock Academy, which had been standing empty since 1922. Civilian Conservation Corps crews dismantled and hauled the stone to Minersville."

Also known as the Clifton Merriman Post Office, the main post office in Cambridge, Massachusetts—originally a branch of the Boston post office—was constructed with federal funds in 1934-5. It was designed in Classical Revival style with Art Deco influences by architects Leland, James D., & Co.; Baven, John, Co., Inc. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

The former branch post office at 237 Washington St. in downtown Somerville, Massachusetts was constructed with federal funds. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the building was constructed in 1934 or 1935. It has since been sold. The lobby of the old post office contains a New Deal mural entitled "A Skirmish between Bristish and Colonists," which was painted in 1939 by Ross E. Moffett.

The post office in Winterset, Iowa was constructed with federal funds and opened in 1935. The building is still in use today.

First Park playground, named for its location at the intersection of East First St. and First Ave. opened in 1935. The New York City Parks Department calls the park a "typical product of the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) initiative to create recreational areas in the City." This was just one of hundreds of playgrounds built by the New Deal in New York City. Based on press releases in the New York City Parks Department archives, researcher Frank da Cruz explains here that almost all New York City Parks Department projects were constructed with New Deal funds and/or labor.  Federal funding for...

The building was designed by the firm of Ashton & Evans and constructed as a PWA project in 1935. In 1969, a new library was built on campus and the Thomas Building was converted into the Utah Museum of Natural History, which recently moved to a new home on the eastern flank of the university. The structure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The former George Thomas Library is being converted to the Crocker Science Center (with major additions) as of 2016-17. Of the $20,000,000 spent in Utah by the Public Works Administration (PWA) for public works projects, the "most imposing" of...