A bridge over Barnagat Bay connecting Mantoloking NJ and Brick NJ was built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration. It was made of concrete and wood and was used for almost seventy years before being replaced in 2006. The… read more
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of the science and the liberal arts buildings at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California. The science building was completed in 1935, Liberal Arts in 1938. The PWA aided in the… read more
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the construction of the liberal arts building and the modernistic facade of the school library at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California in 1938. The PWA aided in the reconstruction of hundreds of… read more
Contributing improvements in forest management and recreation development, CCC Camp Belknap operated in the Willamette National Forest for five years. From spring 1933 to summer 1938, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees strung phone lines through the forest, constructed roads and… read more
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was active in Rocky Mountain National Park throughout the New Deal era, 1933-42. Among the other works undertaken by CCC enrollees was the construction of three amphitheaters, at Aspenglen Campground, Moraine Park Museum and Glacier… read more
The Geneva High School Vocational and Home Economics Building was the first building built at Geneva High School during the 1937-1938 school year. The City of Geneva purchased the land from P.C. Black, Jim Johnson, Jr., and D.H. Morris. The… read more
The Public Works Administration (PWA) lent Grand County $33,750 to help build a new county courthouse in Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, in 1937-38—now the Grant County Administration Building. The project’s total cost was $75,733. (PWA Docket No. CO 1060-R.) The… read more
In 1909, an abundance of dinosaur fossils were discovered by a team of paleontologists collecting for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, near Jensen, Utah. It was one of the most important dinosaur excavation sites in the United States at… read more
The stately Ransom County Courthouse in Lisbon, North Dakota was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project (though it is sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA). The PWA supplied a $49,090 grant for the project, whose total cost was… read more
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built football and baseball fields for the former Bingham High School in Copperton, Utah. Over the last 150 years, there have been five successive Bingham High Schools in the Bingham Canyon Area, part of… read more