Works Progress Administration (WPA) Sites

Westover Hills is an independent community but many people who live there use "Fort Worth" in their address (Westover Hills shares the 76107 zip code with a portion of west Fort Worth). The town hall was constructed by the WPA in 1940 and was designed by Patterson and Teague, architects. The site includes a brick stairway down to the park in front of the hall as well as two bridges, all built by the WPA.

The historic former Town Hall building in Georgia , Vermont was constructed as the Baptist Church in 1800. The building was renovated and re-landscaped as part of a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. The building is no longer extant.

The former Town Hall in Blackstone, Massachusetts was developed with the assistance of federal funds during the New Deal. While documentation is not entirely clear, writing suggests that multiple New Deal agencies were involved in the town hall building's initial conversion to municipal use and its subsequent expansion, including the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Public Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration. The building has since been demolished and a new municipal complex built in its stead. PWA Docket No. MA X 1447.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the former town hall building in Española, New Mexico. The location and status of the structure are unknown to Living New Deal.

"According to a bronze plaque located on the east side of the building, the original town hall was built from 1936-1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The two-story brick structure was one of the earliest projects in Morgan County. The building's cornerstone lists mayor E.L.Drinkard and Alsermen L.E.Brown, J.L.Rowe, D.S.Sivley, and J.W.Tomlinson. The town clerk was V.O.Clark and the town policeman was Dan P.Ryan. The first floor housed the town jail and the town's Fire Fighting equipment. Located on the second floor was the mayor's office and the police station. Currently, the building is home to the Falkville Public...

Fillmore, Utah's historic former town hall was constructed as a federal New Deal project with the assistance of Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor. The building is now privately owned (home for years to Deano's Pizza).

Historic plaque: "This Art Moderne Red Brick Building built by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) served as the Town Hall and Community Center . Mac Hanisch Sr., architect with Unit Structures, used massive arched, glued & laminated (glulam) wood beams. Carl Anderson was the local project supervisor. The building cost Florence $9000, the WPA $21,000, and the first activities were the County Fair and Elections." The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"The two-story former town hall was built in the early 1930s by the Works Progress Administration, and served as Greenwood's meeting place until 1998. ... The hall includes "a large upstairs meeting hall and stage, an entrance vestibule and stairhall, and varnished pine wainscoting and fiberboard sheathing on the walls."

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a then-town hall for Layton, Utah during the Great Depression. The exact location and status of the building is presently unknown to Living New Deal.

WPA crews built the Milaca town hall in 1938. It is now the location of the Milaca Area Historical Society and the Milaca Museum.    

"This Town-owned building of Colonial Revival design is located on the east side of South Main Street and was constructed in 1939 as a Work s Progress Administration (WPA) project with local labor and native materials."

The WPA constructed a small stone town hall for the town of Porum in 1940. A 1985 Oklahoma Landmarks Survey described the building: "This town hall is a single-story, rectangular (47' x 34') structure constructed of uncut native stone of auburn and buff colors. Lighter colored stones serve as quoins at the corners. The roof is both gabled and hipped with intersecting valleys. The front and rear entrances are single door and have stoops; only the front entrance is protected with a small lean-to like covering..." In 1985, it was still being used by the local government. A sign visible on google...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a town hall in Hemp, North Carolina—since renamed Robbins. The location and status of the building, which was dedicated on July 24, 1937, is unknown to Living New Deal.

"City officials of the town of Monroe, were today advised that the Town Hall and the Library were due for remodeling to the extent of $2,400, it was learned from the office of Don G. Abel, State Administrator of the Works Progress Administration, through whose approval the city fathers were granted $1,822 of federal funds for this work. The city of Monroe is supplying an additional $578. The project is slated to begin on November 11 and will supply work for 15 men, taken from WPA rolls, for about two months. The improvements. will bring the public library and city hall...

The Scotland Neck Historic District contains multiple buildings constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). "A one-and-one-half-story brick Colonial Revival-style building was constructed in 1939 on East Eleventh Street through the cooperative efforts of the Town of Scotland Neck and the WPA to serve as the town hall and fire station (#198). The building was utilized in this capacity until the early 1980s."

An online history of Monson reports about the former town hall: "Destroyed in the fire of December 28, 1888. Rebuilt. The annex built in the 1930's by W.P.A. men. The GAR turned the building over to the Town of Monson in the early 1940's. When the town owned it they housed the Town Office, Fire Dept. and Public Library on the first floor. Second floor was used for many activities. In 1972, the town deeded it to the Tisbury Manor Chapter D.A.R. and it presently houses Monson's Historical Museum."   (www.monsonmaine.org)

The Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) and/or Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) made repairs and other improvements to Ashland, Massachusetts's town hall in 1934. "The interior of the Town Hall has been renovated extensively, and several changes made that have been a great improvement in the building." The E.R.A. repaired/replaced the building's heating plant in 1934. Concrete stairs and walks were installed at the building soon after, and the W.P.A. painted the building's exterior in 1937.

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement and repair work at the Town Hall in Edwards, New York.

The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Irvington, New York's town hall during the 1930s. One project, which cost $15,548 (of which the WPA contributed $11,924) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: "Work includes carpentry, plastering, painting, improving electrical system, scraping floors, varnishing," and performing other related work.

The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve the Town Hall in Oyster Bay, NY during the 1930s. One modest project in 1938 involved providing painting, varnishing, and waxing improvements for this as well as other municipal buildings in the town.

These three murals "...and 14 others were originally created as public art specifically for Danvers Town Hall. The project began in 1934 under the joint auspices of the Works Progress Administration Artist and Writers Project and the then solidly Republican Town of Danvers. Numerous local citizens, including William C. Endicott, Jasper Marsh, Lester Couch, Harriet S. Tapley, Ivan G. Smith, Victor D. Elmere, William R. Lynch and the local VFW donated cash for the materials used in the project, while the Federal WPA Administration paid the artists' modest salaries. Principal artist of these works of art on canvas was Richard V....

Artist Walter Korder painted an extensive series of WPA murals for what was then Hall High School, and is now the Town Hall: "His 1,000 square foot mural covers all four walls of Room 312 and chronicles main events in the history of Connecticut and throughout the New England area... Korder completed the masterpiece in 1941 in what was originally a library when the building was known as Hall High School. The stunning detail and vibrant colors preserve a history that dates back to the Red Paint Man of Maine and the Algonquin Indians. “It represents things that are not always represented,” Slifka...

Built in 1871, Wakefield's Lafayette building "was used as the town's high school until 1937, when it was remodeled as part of a WPA project for municipal offices."

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) renovated Kearny Town Hall ca. 1936.

With the aid of the the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), a new highway garage was completed for the town of Walton in Delaware County, New York. More information is needed to determine the current status and location of this project.

The Civil Works Administration funded municipal improvements in Acton ME between 1933 and 1940.  Acton is a rural town (1930 population 449) in York County situated next to the New Hampshire border.   

"Greenhills, Ohio is one of only three 'Greenbelt Towns' built in the United States. The other two are Greenbelt, Maryland and Greendale, Wisconsin. The three towns had their start during the Depression Era. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a program to build new suburban communities as part of his New Deal plans for the country. The overseeing department was the Resettlement Administration which later became a part of the Farms Security Administration. The building of these towns provided much needed jobs for those in the trades (brick layers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc.), as well as people not in the trades...

The Town of Leavenworth is a historic Southern Indiana river town, known for manufacturing boats and buttons. Nearly all of the homes in the town of Leavenworth, Indiana were destroyed by the Ohio River flood of 1937. Only a few brick buildings from the original town, including the former Leavenworth State Bank building and the former IOOF hall (at right in the newspaper picture of flood damage), remain in 2023. The Works Progress Administration, with assistance from other organizations such as the American Red Cross, built a new town on the bluff overlooking the original site.

Multiple New Deal agencies: the Civil Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and Works Progress Administration, helped to develop Canonsburg, Pennsylvania's Town Park in 1934—1936. In addition to constructing its pool and Park Drive, work relief workers—according to a local the submitter met during a visit in 2017—constructed paths and staircases, stone pillars at park entrances, walls, and picnic facilities. It is unclear exactly to what extent the original Depression-era structures have been preserved. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), "approved an appropriation of more than $10,000 to complete the bath house. Another $20,000 was approved for general improvement of the park...

WPA crews constructed this square bandstand in 1941. The bandstand has a basement with a rock foundation and façade with rock pillars. It is located in the center of the Princeton town square and is still actively being used. A rock lintel over the door to the basement has the date 1941 carved in it.

Montpelier's 40th Annual Report details many roadwork projects undertaken in 1934 with Vermont Emergency Relief Administration (VERA) funds, including: "Town Hill Road, short section, excavation, stone base and graveling". In 1939 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) "resurfaced with gravel from Cutler Cemetery Road to East Montpelier line."

The WPA worked on Townsend St. between Embarcadero and 4th St.

A WPA press release reported a WPA toy workshop project in Centralia, Washington in Dec. 1937: "Old Kris Kringle is getting some valuable help in Centralia. where a staff of 15 women are busy making new toys and repairing old ones for childproof of needy families in Lewis County. Don G. Abel, State Works Progress administrator announced yesterday that $1,652 in WPA funds have been allotted for the work which will be carried on through the holiday season. The State Department of Social Security, as official sponsor of the project, has provided supervision quarters, lights, heat, water and telephone. Things oro humming...

In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded a series of street improvements in Keene, NH. This work included removing Keene Electric Railway tracks from West and Main Streets and Central Square and repaving the effected streets.

In 1936, WPA workers removed old trolley tracks from the defunct Portland Company along Woodford Street in Portland Maine.

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 no-longer-extant Traffic Court Building at the corner of Bedford Ave. and Lafayette Ave.

The WPA built a shelter in the park and did landscaping. According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram work on the park went from 1937-38.  (Despite the fact that the WPA plaque on the shelter in contrast has the dates 1935-37 on it).

The accompanying colored post card shows early trailers, brick road, palm trees and Trailer City office building. Trailer City, a mobile home park, was built in the 1930s with WPA (Works Progress Administration) funds. It was a $200,000 project, the idea of Mayor George Walker. The city of Winter Garden owns the property. Trailer City was highly praised in country-wide publications. Postmark on the back of the card is 1946.

A receiving hospital, and employees and nurses training buildings were constructed by the WPA in 1938-1941l. The receiving hospital has been demolished, but the other buildings are now state offices at 701 Elmwood St., Traverse City, MI.

A rock gym built as a WPA project. This was to be the gym for Snyder High School. Eventually a new high school was built and this became Travis Junior High. The building is in very good shape for an 80 year old structure. The hard maple basketball court floor remains as do four sets of folding bleachers. It remains in use for occasional Little Dribblers basketball and indoor golf practice.