• Cardines Field - Newport RI
    "Cardines Field, "a small urban gem of a ballpark" is a baseball stadium located at 20 America’s Cup Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Wikipedia: "Stone and concrete bleachers were built along the third-base line by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936-1937. The plaque at the entrance that reads "1937" refers to this date. The current grandstand was built by the WPA following the devastating hurricane of 1938. The distinctive curving grandstand section behind home plate was built in 1939. Over the coming decades, the park continued to grow through construction projects to increase capacity, eventually creating the patchwork, overlapping stadium seen...
  • Springville Museum of Art - Springville UT
    In 1935-37, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built an art museum for the city of Springville UT.  The building was designed in the style of the Spanish Colonial Revival style by local architect Claud S. Ashworth. The Nebo School District donated the land, the town of Springville granted $29,000 in materials and tools, and the Mormon/LDS church offered another $20,000. The WPA contribution was $54,000, chiefly in labor costs. WPA workers also manufactured the decorative tile for the museum. The Springville Museum of Art is, in fact, the oldest museum in Utah for the visual fine arts. In 1964, a two story wing was...
  • Deer Valley Resort Development - Park City UT
    Deer Valley Resort near Park City UT is one of Utah's major ski areas, along with Park City, Alta and Snowbird.  It is ranked among the top ski resorts in the country, thanks to the quality of powder snow in the Wasatch Mountains. Skiing began at Deer Valley with the Park City Winter Carnivals of the 1930s and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built some of the first ski trails and other facilities during the winter of 1936-1937.   No clear trace of the WPA's work remains, given the massive enlargement of Deer Valley ski area and condominium complex in recent years.
  • Martin County Court House (former) - Stuart FL
    An addition to the old Martin County courthouse in Stuart, Florida was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The facility now serves as a cultural center. The PWA supplied a $12,272 grant for the project, whose total cost was $26,886. Construction occurred between March and June 1937. Wikipedia: "The Old Martin County Court House, built in 1937, is an historic Art Deco style courthouse building located at 80 East Ocean Boulevard in Stuart, Martin County, Florida. ... On November 7, 1997, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building was designed by architect L....
  • Historic Federal Building Murals - Dubuque IA
    The handsome Historic Federal Building (formerly known as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse), in downtown Dubuque, Iowa houses two examples of New Deal artwork. GSA: "The interior features several important murals in the lobby vestibule. The murals were funded with $2,000 of the original money allotted for construction of the building. Although a competition to select an artist was held, officials intended to select Grant Wood, the famous Iowa painter of "American Gothic," to complete the murals. When Wood did not enter the competition, William E.L. Bunn was selected. The selection was subsequently overturned in favor of a painter named...
  • Lamoille Canyon Scenic Byway - Lamoille NV
    Lamoille Canyon is the largest valley in the Ruby Mountains in northeastern Nevada. It is a spectacular glaciated canyon with several side valleys, surrounded by peaks over 11,000 feet.  Much of the canyon lies within the huge Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest complex across Nevada and is jointly managed with the Trust for Public Land. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp in the canyon in 1933 and did extensive work there until 1937.  Notably, the CCC enrollees built the 12-mile road up Lamoille canyon (NF-660) from highway 227.   The road climbs from about 6,000 feet at Lamoille to 8,800 at the...
  • Watonga Middle School - Watonga OK
    Watonga Middle School was originally the Watonga High School, built by the WPA in 1936-1937. From Marjorie Barton's Leaning on a Legacy (2008): "The building was constructed of light sandstone blocks, which are uniform in size, but not squared on the facing, and is beautifully maintained. The high school in Wewoka is of another type of stone and had a large addition as a WPA project. The addition has a WPA marker, but is such a perfect match, it blends with the older portion of the building." From Wayfinding.com: The High School was built in 1936-1937 as a WPA project. This can...
  • Public Library: Cikovsky Mural - Silver Spring MD
    This 16' x 6' oil on canvas entitled "The Old Tavern" was painted by Nicolai Cikovsky in 1937 for the former Silver Spring Post Office, under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. When the old post office closed down in 1981, the mural was moved to the Silver Spring Public Library – which itself relocated in recent years to Wayne Avenue.
  • Post Office (former) - Bethesda MD
    The historic New Deal post office building in Bethesda MD – sometimes misattributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) – was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1937. The Neo-Georgian building was constructed out of native stone trucked in from Stoneyhurst Quarries on River Road... (www.bethesdamagazine.com) The post office remained in use until 2012, when "faced with mounting financial difficulties, the USPS  closed it in 2012 and sold it for $4 million to the Donohoe Companies." The New Deal mural from the post office has been restored and was relocated to Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center in 2013.
  • New Mexico School for the Deaf - Santa Fe NM
    Constructed in 1935, after a design by Santa Fe architect Gordon F. Street, the Old Laundry and Health Center buildings were part of a campus expansion during the New Deal financed by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Public Works Administration programs. When completed in 1937, at cost of approximately $400,000, the six new buildings expanding the New Mexico School Deaf campus were considered masterworks of Spanish-Pueblo Revival architecture.