Completion Year: 1940

The gym was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940 for use by the local high school and El Dorado Junior College which shared the building. The gym remains in use today on what is now the South Arkansas Community College campus.

The Roosevelt County Courthouse, at 400 2nd Avenue South in Wolf Point, Montana, was constructed between 1939 and 1940 with WPA labor.

"When construction was completed in 1940, Crossett reveled in the addition of the 'pleasing green' stucco building that was designed using a combination of Art Deco, Greek Revival, and International architectural syles" (Arkansas Historic Preservation Program). The post office cost $70,000 to build, and housed the post office until 1968. The postal service sold the building to the city for $1 to house the new public library. The library remained in the building until 2002, and the former post office is currently home to the Crossett Economic Development Foundation. "In terms of design, this is a building built decades ahead of...

Monjeau Lookout is located in the Lincoln National Forest near Alto, New Mexico. The lookout "is a famous landmark on the Smokey Bear Ranger District built originally in 1936 and then reconstructed in 1940 as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps project.  This site is a wonderful and adventurous place to visit.  Roads leading up to the site are dirt and can be steep in places.  Visit during the summer months as the road leading to it closes during the winter with the advent of snow.  Monjeau Lookout is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)."   (nps.gov)

The historic Paw Paw post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: a 1940 Section of Fine Arts tempera mural by Carlos Lopez entitled "Bounty."

The North Avenue Beach in Lincoln Park was developed by the Works Project Administration (WPA). The project cost a reported $750,000. The beach and beach house opened July 31, 1941. The beach at that time consisted of more than 870,000 square feet of sand and accommodated 75,000 people.  There were 30 lifeguards, 8 drinking fountains, a loudspeaker system, five light towers, and underwater bulkheads to prevent the lake from washing away the sand. "In 1934, the Lincoln Park Commission became part of the newly consolidated Chicago Park District and the new agency received substantial funding through President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal....

One of Rhode Island's largest sports venues, McCoy Stadium was built between 1938 and 1940 by the City of Pawtucket. It was co-designed by Thomas E. Harding, the city engineer, and Mark Linenthal, associate engineer. Home to the Pawtucket Red Sox, it is named for Tom McCoy, mayor of Pawtucket at the time of the stadium's construction. Renovated in 1999. The stadium is currently home of the Pawtucket PawSox. "Presidents Roosevelt and Truman both visited during the 1940s to see the product of the federal building they'd funded."   (Pahigian)

Skokie Lagoons is a 190 acre nature preserve in Glencoe and Winnetka, Illinois. The Skokie Lagoons are notable as a CCC work because the project merged the ideas of fixing a pertinent mosquito issue in the area and of developing the area into an escape to nature for the community. The Skokie Lagoons project began in 1933 with with 1100 eager, working men from the CCC (“Start Digging First Lagoon in Skokie Project”). Soon after the Forest Army downsized to 1000 men looking to aid in clearing the area of mosquitoes, which used the weedy swamps as a breeding ground. The...

The post office contains a 1940 Section of Fine Arts mural by Vance Kirkland entitled “The Opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Country.”

The Queens–Midtown Tunnel was completed with the assistance of a $58 million Public Works Administration grant approved by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "In 1935, with the promise of $58 million in Public Works Administration loans made available under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, then Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia created the Queens Midtown Tunnel Authority, telling the new agency's three–members, "You are starting from scratch with no appropriation and nothing but an idea and a law.” A year later the Queens Midtown Tunnel Authority became the New York City Tunnel Authority, which merged again in 1946 with the Robert Moses–led Triborough Bridge Authority...