Completion Year: 1940

The New Deal rebuilt and expanded Lake Shore Drive north of the river in Chicago, Illinois, creating the modern limited-access highway that still functions today, passing through Lincoln Park and up to Foster Street. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided initial funding in 1936, a grant of $893,250 towards five public works projects, part of which went to improving Lake Shore Drive from Ohio Street to North Avenue (at south end of Lincoln Park) and between Belmont Avenue and Byron Street (north of Lincoln Park). The PWA also funded the Link Bridge that finally carried Lake Shore Drive across the mouth...

WisconsinHistory.org: "The Herbster Community Center was funded by the Work Progress Administration, a federal agency established in 1935 by President Roosevelt to provide employment for needy workers during the Great Depression. The WPA project at Herbster was developed to utilize local material and to employ local labor while achieving the final goal of erecting a building that could be used as a gymnasium and town hall. Approval for the community center was granted on May 13, 1939 and work on the project was started in October 1939. The center was completed in the spring of 1940 at the cost of $30,000....

The historic Clifton, Texas post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building is still in service.

From Flickr user Courthouselover in 2012: "Built in 1940, this former post office today acts as the Alvin Historical Museum. The old mural that once hung in this post office's lobby today is rolled up in storage awaiting restoration." Since then, the mural has been restored, thanks to the efforts of former Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan and his wife Ruth. It now hangs in the museum.

The historic post office in Tipton, Iowa houses an example of New Deal artwork, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. "In the post office of Tipton, Iowa, high above the heads of those who come to weigh their packages and buy stamps, hangs a mural. Titled “Cattle,” and painted in 1940 by John V. Bloom, it’s a warm, bucolic scene, with a farmer tipping a bucket into a trough to feed his contented pigs. This is a gentle farm and harmonious barnyard, where tidy stacks of hay dot the field, black-and-white chickens gaze reverentially at their master, and cattle...

These New Deal statues entitled "Communication" and "Land" were installed by Carl C. Mose in 1940 in what was then the Salina Post Office and Courthouse. The sculptures still decorate the original building which is now the Smoky Hill Museum.

The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts oil-on-canvas mural entitled "Wheat Workers" painted in 1940 by Martyl Schweig. This is a classic regionalist portrayal of wheat workers in the fields during the transition from hand work to a mechanized harvest. The motion and hard work is palpable and in the background are the oil derricks that western Kansas is also known for. Martyl was born to Aimee Schweig, a well-known artist in St. Louis and one of the organizers of the Ste. Genevieve artist colony that thrived from 1930-1940. Martyl was a prodigy, studying with her mother and the other...

The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural "Farm Life" painted by Robert E. Larter in 1940. This depicts 2 seasons of farm work with the man on the left chopping wood with a hat and coat, the man on the right feeding hogs, though the trees in the background have no leaves. Robert Larter studied at Choate School and Yale University school of Fine Arts. He taught art at Washburn, University from 1938. There is another mural by Larter in Philadelphia.

The Dover-Foxcroft post office features this mural, "River Driving", by Barrie Barstow Greenbie (1920-1988). Greenbie was trained at the Corcoran School of Art in New York, and this was his first job. The work was painted in 1940, thus making Greenbie among the youngest artists commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.  

"The Federal Office Building in Laconia, New Hampshire, was designed by Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect for the Public Works Branch of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division. Conceived and built during the Depression era as the United States Forestry Building, the cornerstone for the building was laid in 1939, and the building was dedicated soon after in July 1940. The building, authorized under the New Deal's colossal building program, is designed in a stripped Classical Revival style and is representative of one of several styles preferred by government architects in the 1930s."