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Contractor: Works Progress Administration

Armory (former) – Atoka OK

Text from the National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: “The Atoka Armory is a single story, rectangular (1981 x 120′) structure constructed of rusticated and coursed native sandstone of auburn and buff colors. The walls are eighteen inches thick…. read more

Project type: Armories, Military and Public Safety
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Bridge – Clarendon TX

A city sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA) project (14752) dismantled a hazardous steel truss bridge crossing a drainage ditch in Clarendon. The WPA then excavated and widened the channel and built a new reinforced concrete slab over masonry substructure bridge…. read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Bristol School (former) – Bristol TX

Text from the state historical marker reads: “The community’s first school was housed in a multi-purpose building erected here in 1870. The Bristol School district was established in 1877. Youth from throughout the area attended Bristol schoolhouse built in 1886… read more

Project type: Schools, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Clairette School (former) Improvements – Dublin TX

Built in 1912, the two-story, native stone Clairette School building survives as a community center and polling place. In 1939, Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a separate gymnasium building and a star shaped fountain in front of the 1912 building. The… read more

Project type: Schools, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Coryell County Hospital (former) – Gatesville TX

In 1940, Coryell County voters passed an issue for $30,000 in bonds bearing interest at the rate of not more than three percent to build a county hospital. Those bonds were issued on July 8, 1940. Designed by architects Brooks… read more

Project type: Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Delta County Courthouse – Cooper TX

Starting in 1938, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) demolished the 1900 Delta County Courthouse in Cooper and built a new $110,450 four-story courthouse that was finished in 1940.

Project type: Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Farm to Market Road 45 Extension – Brownwood TX

This section of Farm to Market Road (FM) 45 is a 4.6 mile two-lane paved road running in an east-west direction below the south corporate city limits of Brownwood. The Works Progress Administration constructed the road in 1941 as a… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Gymnasium – Luling TX

The Works Progress Administration built a gymnasium in Luling, Texas in 1937.

Project type: Education and Health, Gymnasiums, Parks and Recreation
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Hartgrove Gymnasium – Millersview TX

Between 1938 and 1939 the Works Progress Administration built a combination auditorium and gymnasium in Millersview, Texas under official project number 665-66-2-352. The building had a concrete foundation and buttresses with stone walls and brick trim.

Project type: Gymnasiums, Auditoriums and Arenas, Civic Facilities, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Llano County Public Library (former) – Llano TX

The Works Progress Administration and the Llano Women’s Culture Club teamed together to build a library on the southwest corner of the courthouse square in Llano, Texas in 1939. The WPA provided 70% of the resources for the one-story native… read more

Project type: Libraries, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Mitchell Street Bridge – San Antonio TX

The Works Progress Administration built the Mitchell Street Bridge over the San Antonio River between 1935 and 1937. The steel stringer style two-lane bridge is still in use for vehicular traffic.

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Municipal Swimming Pool and Bathhouse – Navasota TX

The Works Progress Administration built the municipal swimming pool in Navasota, Texas between 1935 and 1936. The complex includes the main swimming pool, a wading pool and a bath house. The bath house was originally built as a single story… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Bathhouses, Swimming Pools
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Mustang Bowl – Sweetwater TX

In March, 1939 the federal government approved $65,000 for a new football stadium in Sweetwater, Texas. Texas Senator Tom Connally and U.S. Representative from Texas Clyde L. Garrett received credit for getting the project signed off. The Works Project Administration… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Stadiums
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Round Top-Carmine High School – Carmine TX

The Works Progress Administration built the original section of Round Top-Carmine High School in 1939 (Project No. 12646.). It was called the Carmine Independent School at the time of construction. An addition was built on the northwest side of the… read more

Project type: Schools, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Town Center – Orchard TX

The City of Orchard Town Center was originally constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as the Orchard School between 1940 and 1941 under the official project number 65-1-66-2586. Designed by architect Ernest L. Schult, the building had thirteen rooms… read more

Project type: Schools, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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