Completion Year: 1941

Among the first Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps located in southwestern Oregon, Camp Agness offered a challenge to its first group of enrollees when they arrived in May 1933 to work on projects in the Siskiyou National Forest (#F-45). There were no roads into the area so access was provided by a 32-mile boat up the Rogue River. Historian William Lansing suggests that "it probably was one of the most difficult camps to reach in the nation . . . It would retain that reputation until the roads to Gold Beach and to Powers were completed some years later by...

To improve and expand the Umatilla Project's irrigation service in Umatilla County, the Bureau of Reclamation (BR) managed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at Stanfield. Camp Stanfield opened in October 1935 and operated as one of Oregon's five Bureau of Reclamation camps. Local historian Dorys Crow Grover summarized the benefits of Stanfield's CCC camp by saying, "The CCC men of Stanfield Company 569 built many of the concrete canals and irrigation ditches that have made the Stanfield-Westland land agriculturally productive today." The CCC enrollees of Camp Stanfield #569/ BR-44 expanded and improved an irrigation system that the Bureau of Reclamation...

Between 1937 and 1941, funding from the Civilian Conservation Corps - Indian Division (CCC-ID) supported tribal members of the Umatilla Agency in construction of a new celebration ground near Mission, Oregon. To accommodate celebrations that would attract several hundred tribal members, efforts focused on event space, sanitation needs, and amenities. As indicated in the drawing of proposed improvements (see photo), CCC-ID enrollees made landscape improvements for events and camping, built a bathhouse and community lodge, and laid out a quarter-mile racetrack, a baseball field, and space for a war dance tent. The initial improvements included clearing brush and trees from 20...

The New Deal built the first campus for Boise State University from 1940 to 1942.  Established in 1932, Boise Junior College lacked a permanent home until the the move to the present campus.  Four buildings were erected at the time, along with infrastructure and landscaping. The Assembly Hall was constructed in 1940-41 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and lies just to the east of the much larger Administration Building (1940).  It housed the Music Department, where concerts were performed. The Assembly Hall is a two story building in a neo-Tudor Gothic style, with exaggerated gables over the windows.  It is clad...

Originally installed in the then-new post office in Fort Lee, New Jersey, these four murals were commissioned by the Department of the Treasury's Section of Fine Arts. Painted by Henry Schnakenberg, they were installed in 1941. The works are titled “Indians Trading with the Half Moon,” “Washington at Fort Lee,” “Moving Pictures at Fort Lee,” and “The Present Day.” As part of a redevelopment effort by the borough's mayor, which led to the demolition of the murals' original home, the borough agreed to fund the restoration of the artworks and relocate them to a location where the public could continue to...

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon was expanded in two steps under the New Deal.  In 1935 the 164,503 acre Blitzen Valley was purchased using emergency relief funds. In 1941, land west of Malheur Lake was added. The refuge was originally established as the Lake Malheur Reservation in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt from unclaimed government lands encompassing Malheur, Harney, and Mud Lakes after plume hunters had decimated the local bird population. The information brochure for Malheur NWR gives more details: "The drought years of the 1930s had a profound effect on Lake Malheur Reservation. The water levels on Harney, Malheur, and Mud...

In 1940-41, the Los Angeles County Housing Authority constructed the Harbor Hills public housing project in Lomita, CA. Partially funded by the United States Housing Authority (USHA), Harbor Hills was the second public housing project in Los Angeles County. Harbor Hills comprised 102 acres overlooking the San Pedro Bay, but only 27-acres were developed because of the difficult topography. (Unlike many other urban renewal projects, no “slums” were cleared for this development.) The 52 one- and two-story brick and concrete buildings included 300 dwelling units, each with a living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and one to three bedrooms. The buildings...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built gutters on the south side of 56th Street in Oakland, California in 1940-41.  The work was marked with typical WPA date stamps in the concrete in the 800 block of 57th Street west of Shattuck Ave. Only  three stamps remain, one indecipherable; most likely others have been covered by asphalt paving or removed with driveway replacements. This work was part of a much larger program of improving streets, curbs and sidewalks throughout Oakland in those years.  

In 1935, according to the Corvallis Gazette-Times, residents of Benton County requested that a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp be placed "on the shoulder" of Mary's Peak to build a road. Although such roads served forest management needs, this proposal emphasized the winter and summer recreational opportunities that they wished to develop with improved access to the upper heights of the tallest peak in Oregon's Coast Range. Road improvement and construction finally began in 1938 with the work of 50 CCC enrollees from a side camp of CCC Camp Nestucca and 25 Works Progress Administration (WPA) employees of the...

The gorgeous Moderne-style municipal building at the southeast corner of Main St. S and 2nd St. E in Faith, South Dakota was constructed as a Work Projects Administration (WPA) project in 1941. WPA Project No. 4073