Completion Year: 1937

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did extensive improvements to McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park near Burney, California from 1934 to 1937. Burney Falls is the second oldest California state park, created in 1922 to protect the spectacular 130-foot tall falls.   According to Engbeck's history of the CCC in California state parks, enrollees did the following work: they cleaned up the park; created a fire break around the park and built a split-rail perimeter fence;  constructed a campground with tables, stoves, cupboards, comfort stations, and a water and sanitary system; remodeled a small park custodian house; built a park entrance station with...

This organ screen was originally built for the California School for the Blind. It is a wood carving with gold leaf and polychrome. It remains in the same location, but the building has since become part of the UC Berkeley Clark Kerr Campus in the 1980s. "In 1936 was hired by the WPA as a senior sculptor, advancing almost immediately to the position of unit supervisor. Working from his shop at Fifteenth and Shotwell, Johnson began producing large scale public art. His first public art project was a twenty-two foot long organ screen for the California School for the Blind...