Completion Year: 1940

The North Avenue Beach was developed by the Works Project Administration (WPA) as part of a larger program of improvements to Lincoln Park on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. Construction began in 1939 and the beach opened July 31, 1940.  A beach house was added designed to look like a lake ship by Chicago Park District architect Emanuel Buchsbaum. The original structure was demolished in the 1990s after suffering from severe deterioration and replaced by a new structure along similar lines. The new beach house was built in 1999 and is slightly larger than the original structure. The current beach house...

This 1940 Section of Fine Arts mural "Local Industry" by Jean Swiggett was originally created for the old Franklin post office. The mural is 14'6" x 6' and the medium is oil on canvas. It was moved to this location when that post office was replaced.

The red-brick Colonial Revival style post office in Bolivar, Tennessee was constructed in 1940 with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service. Construction is sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

A stone wall along the north side of an overflow catchment field that typifies CCC water projects constructed in the area.

The post office contains a 1940 Section of Fine Arts plaster relief entitled “Industry and the Family.” The relief was created by artist Murray J. Roper.

The historic Paulsboro post office contains three painted wood carvings by Nena de Brennecke. The carvings are collectively titled "Oil Refining." They were created under the auspices of the Section of Fine Arts and installed in the post office in 1940.

"The last structure built in the Main Street Historic District, the Roxbury Central School, is architecturally and historically significant as a Tudor Revival style building that symbolizes the period of centralization in the development of the New York educational system. The facility is an outstanding local landmark in Roxbury and was designed by the locally prominent Albany architect Harold O. Fullerton. Built as a Public Works Administration project between 1939 and 1940, the building eventually replaced eight one-room rural school houses. Architecturally, the Roxbury school design reflects the desire of the village to continue the aesthetic preferences of the Gould...

Originally the Harrisonburg United States Post Office and Court House, this Louis A. Simon-designed federal building opened in 1940. The GSA writes that the building "is located at the northeast corner of North Main and East Elizabeth Streets in the historic commercial and institutional center of the city. The building contains five floors, including a full basement and penthouse, and rises to a height of nearly 60 feet above grade. It is cruciform in plan, measuring approximately 104 feet wide from north to south by 142 feet long from east to west. Its masonry exterior features Classical/Colonial Revival detailing with Flemish-bond...

The Metuchen Post Office was completed in 1940 with Treasury Department funds.

Built as the U.S. Court House and Custom House from 1932 to 1934, this building was Renamed the John Archibald Campbell United States Courthouse in 1981. A 1939-1940 New Deal construction project involved the extension of the building to the west.