All Sites

This is an alphabetical list of every New Deal site on our national map, with a thumbnail photo and text.

• 28th Street Land Reclamation Project - San Diego CA

  This WPA land reclamation project (a process by which new land is created from sea or riverbeds) appears to have taken place where 28th street runs into the San Diego coastline near East Harbor Drive. Note the ships and masts just visible towards the horizon in the photo below. ...
• 2nd Street Dead End Wall - Salina KS

  In 1939, a dead-end wall was constructed on 2nd Street in Salina, Kansas by youths who were employed by the National Youth Administration (NYA). The NYA was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that focused on training, employing, and educating young people between the ages of 16 and ...
• 35th Avenue Development - Flushing NY

  The Works Progress Administration (WPA) contributed to the development of what of 35th Avenue, extending it from Prince to College Points Boulevard (then known as Lawrence Street), in anticipation of the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing. ...
• 35th Street Houses - Washington DC

  The Alley Dwelling Authority (ADA) and the Federal Works Agency (FWA) funded the construction of the 35th Street Houses in Washington, DC in 1943. This development of 75 living units was built for white national defense workers (Washington, DC was highly segregated at the time). It is unknown to the Living New ...
• 3rd St. Improvements - San Francisco CA

  The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve many roads in San Francisco, including the stretch of 3rd St. between what was then Bayshore Blvd. and Burke Ave. Highway 101 now occupies that stretch of Bayshore Blvd. ...
• 3rd Street Dead End Wall - Salina KS

  In 1939, a dead-end wall was constructed on 3rd Street in Salina, Kansas by youths who were employed by the National Youth Administration (NYA). The rock wall at the south end of 3rd Street bears an NYA plaque. The NYA was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that ...
• 4-H Camp Cabins, Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest - Appomattox VA

  The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built some of the cabins at the Holiday Lake 4-H Center in Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest. The CCC also constructed the Woolridge Wayside picnic area nearby. ...
• 4th Avenue Court Building (former) Improvements - Brooklyn NY

  The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook a sizable public building improvement project in Brooklyn, New York beginning in 1935.  The project involved the "Improvement of Public Buildings and Offices" at more than 30 locations, including the old 4th Avenue Court Building. The building now houses the NYPD. ...
• 4th Avenue Improvements - Greenville PA

  The federal Civil Works Administration improved 4th Avenue— "ashing" the road—in Greenville, Pennsylvania between 1933 and 1934. ...
• 51 Gough Street Office Building - San Francisco CA

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