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The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was very active in Rock Creek park, as well as the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, during the 1930s.  Among other work, the CCC enrollees cleared Rock Creek of brush, deepened the channel and added rip-rap and stone retaining walls to stabilize the channel at various places along the stream. The exact dates of the creek stabilization work are unknown, as the CCC had a camp in Rock Creek Park for most of the 1930s. Much of the CCC work appears to remain in place, though distinguishing it from earlier and later stonework is not certain.  

The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded improvements for Highway Road. The road is likely still part of US 60/Midland Trail, though its exact location is unknown and is believed to be running from Clifftop Road northwest for the distance as that is approximately 3 miles. Excerpt from Legal Advertisement, Notice to Contractors, The Charleston (WV) Gazette, March 18, 1939, p. 11: "Public Works Administration Project Docket 1197-F -- PWA 3717 Fayette County. 2.379 miles of the U.S. 60 Route. Clifftop Road for grading, draining, Macadam Base, Surface Treatment and Bridge. Certified Check $2800.00 Jack S. Donnachie, Branch Manager, W. Va. State...

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Rollinsford Grade School. The structure was built in 1936, and consists of a large T-shaped two story gabled roof building in the Colonial Revival style. The town-wide school was grades 1-8. At present it is grades K-6.  

In 1933-34, the Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for pavement repair and other unspecified improvements to the segment of E Street NW crossing the Elipse, from Fifteenth Street to West Executive Avenue, plus the roadway of East Executive Avenue from E Street to Treasury Place.   PWA funds “provided greater traffic width and an approximate straight line extension of E Street to the west and East Executive Avenue to the south. The very high crowns on E Street and its intersecting roadways were considerably reduced and cement concrete gutters were installed.”   The labor was very likely provided by Civil Works Administration (CWA) or other...

In 1933-34, the Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for pavement repair and other unspecified improvements to a long segment of Good Hope Road SE, from Nichols Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr Avenue) to Naylor Road.  The labor was very likely provided by Civil Works Administration (CWA) or other relief agency workers.   This roadwork is probably not discernible today, having been paved over several times.           

The Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for pavement repair and other unspecified improvements to a long segment of Benning Road NE, from Minnesota Avenue to Central Avenue, between 1933 and 1934.  The labor was very likely provided by Civil Works Administration (CWA) or other relief workers.   This was one of a group of road projects funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1933: "Among projects approved here are paving of Sixteenth street, Constitution Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Columbia Road, Foxhall Road, Good Hope Road, New Hampshire Avenue, Benning Road and Conduit Road, widening of E Street back of the White House...

Two major improvements were made to the U.S. Treasury Department building in 1933-34, using funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and under the supervision of the newly created Procurement Division of the Treasury Department.  The first major improvement was the remodeling of the fourth floor, originally attic space, “into good office space, and air conditioned so as to be a liveable place to work in hot weather of the Summer” (Evening Star, 1933).  The exact cost of this project is unknown, but it was between $140,000 and $200,000 of the PWA funds. The second major improvement to the Treasury building...

Erwin Springweiler designed the sculptures of elephants and mammoths above the interior doors in the Elephant House at National Zoo. The actual carving was done by Lombard & Ludwig, architectural sculptors, during construction of the Elephant House in 1936-37. These works were paid for by the Treasury Relief Arts Project (TRAP).    

After a fire destroyed the Brookhaven High School in March 1937, the city began making plans for a replacement. In October, the city voted in favor of a $50,000 bond to help finance the new building, combined with insurance of $60,000 and a Works Progress Administration grant of $90,067. R. W. Naef was the architect. The new building had over 30 classrooms, and a total cost of approximately $250,000 and could serve 1500 students. The first class graduated May 1939 after completion of the new school in April.

Annex 1 was added to the Belzoni school for African American students in 1938. It was constructed by the National Youth Administration. It is currently in use as part of the O. M. McNair Elementary School in Belzoni.