Completion Year: 1937

During development of the Civilian Conservation Corps' (CCC) Camp Agness, enrollees also began work on a Ranger Station for the Rogue River National Forest. When work began on a new ranger station in Gold Beach, the compound was renamed a guard station. The Agness Guard Station consisted of five buildings when built between 1933 and 1937. All structures drew upon the rustic design style used by the US Forest Service. These included: the Guard Station Office (1934), a one and one-half story ranger's residence (1937), the crew-house, a washhouse and a warehouse (1934). An onsite storage shed predated the Guard...

The Works Progress Administration conducted restoration work at historic Abbot Hall in Marblehead MA in 1937. The structure is still in use and continues to serve as the Marblehead Town Hall. Abbot Hall underwent restoration work in 2019-2020.

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a series of storm drains on Hooper Avenue in Los Angeles, CA in an effort to combat flood control. The WPA allocated $1,285,044 towards the project. 

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineer constructed two rock jetties at the mouth of Ballona Creek that extended into the Pacific Ocean in Playa Del Rey, CA. They also constructed a riprap protected channel from the Pacific Ocean to Inglewood Blvd. 

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), working out of Camp Soapstone, built cabins for Camp Steiner on Scout Lake.  Camp Steiner was the Salt Lake City Boy Scout camp in the Uinta Mountains established in 1930.  Its development was given a boost in the Great Depression by the arrival of the CCC. This work was one of several recreational projects of the CCC in the western Uintas from 1933 to 1937, including the Mirror Lake Highway and facilities at Mirror Lake.  Today, Camp Steiner is known as Sunrock High Adventure Camp, a private non-profit.  The Sunrock Camp website mentions work cutting timber for...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), working out of Camp Soapstone, developed Mirror Lake Highway (now Highway 150) east of Kamas up into the Uinta Mountains.  The new highway opened up the entire western flank of the Uintas along the upper Provo River and over Bald Mountain Pass for public access and recreation. The high country here is dotted with small lakes and campgrounds, which are very popular with the Utahns today. The CCC men also developed facilities at Mirror Lake and Scout Lake, and probably some of the campgrounds along the highway. We do not know further details about the highway in...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), working out of Camp Soapstone, developed Mirror Lake in the Uinta Mountains for recreation. This included a creating a picnic area with a lovely rustic shelter and building a forest service guard station near the entrance. Both still stand. A campground, boat launch and parking have been added to the area, which is very popular for families. The picnic shelter is notable for back-to-back wooden panels on which are etched a map of the Uinta mountains on one side and a description of the resources of the Wasatch National Forest on the other. It is almost certain...

The Stark County Courthouse in Dickinson, ND was built as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The PWA supplied a $93,280 grant for the project (PWA Docket No. N.D. 1043-R). Construction occurred between Mar. 1936 and Jun. 1937. The building bears a gorgeous set of five bas-relief sculptures on the front façade, as well as carved inscriptions STARK and AD 1936 and distinctive Deco light fixtures. A PWA plaque can be found inside to the left of the front entrance. Short and Brown's PWA publication of 1939 describes the building: This structure is three stories and a basement in height and is rectangular...

The former Rapid City High School at 601 Columbus St., which dates to 1923, received a New Deal addition in the form of "the central and west sections in 1936-37." The federal Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied a $158,727 grant for the project, whose total cost was $379,347. The city also passed a $194,000 bond issue on November 12, 1935 for the project. Construction took place between Feb. 1936 and Apr. 1937. The building is presently home to the Performing Arts Center of Rapid City. NRHP Nomination Form: "Construction of the Rapid City High School exemplified the purpose of the PWA...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built sewers in the Town of Thomaston ME between 1936 and 1937. At the 1930 census, the population of the Town of Thomaston was 2,214. Excerpts from Town of Thomaston Annual Reports 1936-1937: 1936 Continuation of W.P.A. Sewer Project $800.00 Booker St. (W.P.A. Project) Expended $488.57 W.P.A. Expense $20.79 1937 W.P.A. Projects Receipts (1,180.00) Disbursements ($) Unexpended ($1860.76) Overdraft ($680.76) Selectmen's Report "The town has thus far been fortunate in the choice of W.P.A. projects, which has brought construction which would otherwise not have been done, and to which maintenance costs are at a minimum. The Wadsworth Street sewer from the Railroad track has been...