- E. Shawnee St. Bridge - Tahlequah OK"This is an arch bridge constructed in 1941 as a WPA project. It spans the Tahlequah Creek and has a two-lane asphalt surface known as East Shawnee Street. "The bridge is supported by four concrete pillars, two on each side of the creek. The sidewalls of the bridge have four smaller pillars on each side, connected with metal pole railing. One of these smaller pillars is embossed with the WPA shield and reads 'WPA 1941.'"
- E. W. Luther Elementary School Gate - South Milwaukee WIThe Works Progress Administration built an entrance gate for the E. W. Luther Elementary School track. A plaque installed on the structure reads: "WPA 1036." The gate marks the back entrance to the school's athletic field.
- Eagle Mill Demolition - Woonsocket RIWoonsocket, RI: A Centennial History, states: "some of Woonsocket's relief workers were involved in the demolition of a long-time textile operation in the city, the Eagle Mill below Court Street Bridge, which had been in operation for 105 years."
- Eagle Pass High School (former) - Eagle Pass TXThe New Deal helped to construct the Eagle Pass high school at 1610 Del Rio Boulevard in the mid-to-late 1930s. It operated as a high school until 1972 before becoming a middle school. It is now an elementary school. According to contributor William Gunter there is a WPA plaque on the building with the date 1936. However, an article in the American Educational History Journal puts the year at 1938.
- Eagle Point Park - Clinton IANot to be confused with the park of the same name in Dubuque, Iowa, the WPA did extensive work on Eagle Point Park from 1935-1937. Workers deepened and widened Battle Creek, built trails and footbridges, and constructed many stone structures in the park: "Overlooking the Mississippi River and General Zebulon Pike Lock and Dam (No. 13) are the 164 acres known as Eagle Point Park. Visitors are provided with spectacular views of the river and parts of Illinois, and Iowa. Shelter buildings constructed from native stone are available by reservation. The park offers many more amenities, such as: picnic tables, barbecue...
- Eagle Point Park - Dubuque IA"The park took on a new look in the 1930s when the City hired Park Superintendent Alfred Caldwell. A $200,000 Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant was received and the gifted landscape architect began work. His love of Frank Lloyd Wright prairie architecture is very recognizable in the buildings and gardens. Caldwell's exceptional use of native construction materials, craftsmanship, and unique designs make the park one of the most beautiful in the Midwest." (https://www.dbq.com) "Architect Alfred Caldwell directed the building of many of the structures at the park, which made use of the limestone found in the area. These include the pavilions,...
- Earl L. Vandermeulen High School Improvements - Port Jefferson NYWhat is now-Earl L. Vandermeulen High School was improved by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1936. According to the Suffolk County News, these improvements included "concrete walks, pavement, and drains on grounds of Port Jefferson High School and athletic field."
- Earl Ruth Park - Parlier CAWPA Proj. No. 646-02-2-300, $2,200, June 7, 1938. "Make improvements to the City Park in the city of Parlier, Fresno County, including constructing restroom with utility connections, wading pool, swings, sand boxes, and other recreational facilities; grading and oiling roads; landscaping; removing and transplanting trees; and performing appurtenant and incidental work. City-owned property. In addition to projects specifically approved." Total Federal and sponsor funds $3,100, average employed 19. During a February 2018 site visit, the WPA built toilets appeared to be non functional. Newer toilets were located on the other side of the park. There was no wading pool and swings. Most likely,...
- Earlsboro High School - Earlsboro OKIn 1940 the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) supported the construction of Earlsboro High School in Oklahoma. According to the Waymarking site for this building, the town of Earlsboro had a population of 486 in 1940. Without the resources provided by the WPA, the town would not have been able to afford to build the school at the time. In the words of the Oklahoma Preservation Survey, "the WPA brought federal funds to help meet construction costs. Without this help Earlsboro would not have the facilities it has today. In constructing the buildings, the WPA hired unemployed residents of the...
- East 222nd Street Improvements - Bronx NYThe federal Work Projects Administration put many men to work starting in 1935 with a Bronx street repair and maintenance project along roads throughout the borough. The streets, many of which in New York City were still unpaved, were surfaced with penetrated macadam. Roads improved included the 1.2-mile stretch of East 222nd Street between Carpenter Ave. and Boston Rd.
- East 49th Street (former) Reconstruction - Bayonne NJThe federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) reconstructed Bayonne's old East 49th Street—then unpaved—from Avenue E to the New York Bay waterfront. The road has since been either renamed Pulaski Ave. or otherwise replaced.
- East 93rd Street Improvements - Brooklyn NYThe federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) undertook several road improvement projects along roads in Brooklyn, New York. One such project involved the removal of malls and other repair work along the modest stretch of East 93rd Street from Lenox Rd. to Kings Highway.
- East Avenue to Montrose Drive Sewer System - Charleston WVThe Works Progress Administration built a sewer system running from East Avenue, Charleston to Montrose Drive, South Charleston. “Construction of brick sewer to connect storm and sanitary sewer with sewer from East avenue to Kanawha river, also to connect under Montrose drive. South Charleston.” East Avenue is now called MacCorkle Avenue. The general location of the project is in the vicinity of the river.
- East Avenue Widening - Burlington VTPhoto caption, UVM: "Feb. 26, 1938 dated photo. East Avenue from near Colchester Avenue looking South, WPA (Work Projects Administration) Project No. 65-12-336. This view shows the widening project carried on during the winter months. This street was widened to a total width of thirty feet and a slope of 1 -1 1/2 was given to the shoulders. The old power line was reconstructed with new poles and fixtures and placed in a position to allow for future development. Another project is being prepared for future development of a new pavement and further widening at the south end of this...
- East Bakersfield Firehouse No. 2 - Bakersfield CAThis compact, red-roofed station was built with $30,000 in federal funds.
- East Bay Regional Parks: Clearing and Tree Planting - Berkeley and Oakland CANew Deal work relief and conservation crews cleared hundreds of acres of trees and brush and planted hundreds of thousands of trees and shrubs in three of the original units of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD): Tilden, Temescal, and Redwood Regional Parks. This work was part of a major New Deal effort to aid the newly-created Parks District (1934) in improving its parks for public recreation, direct by the Parks District's first general manager, Elbert Vail. The natural landscape of the Oakland-Berkeley hills was mostly grassland, with some oak-chaparral woodlands, riparian vegetation and patches of redwood (all of which had...
- East Bay Regional Parks: Other Improvements - Berkeley CA and Oakland CAThe East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) was formed in 1934 and acquired land for parks from the East Bay Municipal Water District in 1936. The first parks were Tilden, Sibley, Temescal and Redwood in the East Bay Hills behind Berkeley and Oakland CA. The New Deal provided extensive aid towards improving the new parks for public recreation, working with the Parks District's first general manager, Elbert Vail. Overall, the New Deal agencies spent roughly $3 million on the East Bay parks, about double the tax funds available to the EBRPD over the same period (Stein 1984, p. 18) Even before the parks...
- East Bay Regional Parks: Roads and Trails - Berkeley CA and Oakland CAThe East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) was formed in 1934 and acquired land for parks from the East Bay Municipal Water District. The first parks were Tilden, Sibley, Temescal and Redwood in the East Bay Hills behind Berkeley and Oakland CA. Even before the parks were acquired, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up camps in the hills and operated in the parks for the entire New Deal decade, 1933-42. The first camp was in Wildcat Canyon at the present site of the Nature Center. The first road built by CCC work crews was the Loop Road at the center...
- East Border Road Reconstruction - Medford MAW.P.A. project description: "The three projects, which were approved and on which work was started late in the year, provide for the reconstruction of: ... East Border Road, from Fellsway East, Maiden to Highland Avenue, Medford, 2,900 feet in length. All these roads will have a width of 30 feet and have a 5-inch bituminous concrete surface on a 12-inch gravel base. Also, an 8-ft. wide, 2-inch bituminous surfaced walk will be constructed adjacent to and for the whole length of each road. Work will include excavation of earth, rock and ledge, installation of drainage systems, filling and grading, loaming and...
- East Bridge (former) - Billings to Lockwood MT"The far more substantial East Bridge on the Yellowstone River, which connects Lockwood and Billings, was built with WPA funds in 1935 and served for 58 years before it was replaced in 1993."
- East Capitol Street SE Water Main - Washington DCIn 1938-1939, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a new Water Main on East Capitol Street, between 59th and 61st Streets NW. The Annual Report of the DC government provide details: “Undertaken with W. P.A. labor, a 20-inch main, totaling 685 linear feet, was laid in East Capitol Street between Fifty-ninth and Sixty first Streets, to serve new houses under construction. This main will eventually be extended to intercept a proposed 30-inch main in Minnesota Avenue and will extend from Minnesota Avenue and East Capitol Street to the east most extremity of the Anacostia first high service, completing a major trunk main through...
- East End Ave. Improvements - Pittsburgh PAAmong a set of 26 WPA projects approved for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in Sept. 1935 was the "grading, paving and curbing of East End avenue" in eastern Pittsburgh. The Federal government allocated $1,818 for the project and local sponsors contributed $1,827.
- East End Boulevard Improvements - Wilkes-Barre PA"WPA’s legacy is visible today in those and many other ways" in Wilkes-Barre. "Travel was made easier when the East End Boulevard was straightened out and crucial highway links in the Back Mountain and West Side areas were constructed, all by WPA workers."
- East End School Additions - Meridian MSIn 1936, the WPA added a rear auditorium and cafeteria to the East End Italianate/Craftsman school originally constructed in 1888.
- East Ferry Waterfront Upgrade - Jamestown RI"In 1939, ... there were thirty-two men employed , eight of them on the East Ferry waterfront upgrade." Work included construction of a seawall, in which are embedded "Built by Work Projects Administration; R.I. 1940" shield plaques.
- East Fifth Street Paving - Oswego NYThe federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) paved East Fifth Street in Oswego, New York in the vicinity of East Utica St. in 1938.
- East Hampton Airport - East Hampton NYThe WPA approved funds for the construction of a municipal airport in East Hampton, NY in 1936. Work on the airport began Oct. 1936 and was completed by mid-1937. The project, as reported by Sayville's Suffolk County News, "will employ more than a hundred men seven months." Three runways were built as part of the project. The airport is still in use today.
- East Hartselle Pike Improvements - Hartselle ALThe Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out paving work on the East Hartselle Pike in Hartselle, in 1937. The WPA cost was $18,338.14.
- East Layton Water System - Layton UTThe former municipality of East Layton, Utah was founded with the express purpose of obtaining federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds for a water system construction project. East Layton has since merged with Layton. "The local water supply was unreliable, a common problem in Utah's desert climate. Wells and streams often ran dry in late summer, and water would have to be hauled to homes by hand. Lifelong resident David Green envisioned a municipal water system supplied from Crooked Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains to the east. By the 1930s many of Green's neighbors were interested, but Utah's banks were lending...
- East Lincoln Avenue Sewer Tunnel - Mount Vernon NYThe National Archives photo caption for this picture of sewer tunnel work, records the project as a "...tunnel for sanitary sewer - 42 feet under East Lincoln Ave," in Mount Vernon City, Westchester County, New York.
- East Main Street School (former) Improvements - Amsterdam NYThe federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve the former East Main Street School in Amsterdam, New York during the 1930s. WPA work included the modest contributions of "painting walls, ceilings, windows, doors, and cornice" as well as varnishing. The building has since been repurposed as a church.
- East Newark Playground (former) - Newark NJThe federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed East Newark's first playground. The 50'-by-100' facility opened July 13, 1936. Located on Searing Avenue between Passaic and Grant Avenues, the playground is no longer extant.
- East Park - Connellsville PAThe Works Progress Administration (WPA) built East Park in Connellsville, Pennsylvania between 1936 and 1940. “In January 1936, Connellsville came together for suggestions to transform the dump back into a more recreational attraction….This transformation started in 1936 and continued until 1940. One of the first things to happen at this site was a fence being built to keep out trucks from dumping. One of the first improvements created as a playground area. By August 1939, many were starting to use the playground area for recreation and even boxing exhibitions.” “As the East Park improvements continued, they were also put on hold with...
- East Potomac Park: Road Improvements - Washington DCEast Potomac Park rests on an artificial peninsula created with dredge spoils from the Potomac River by the Corps of Engineers. The park opened to the public in 1912 and was largely developed in the 1920s. After a flood in 1936, Work: A Journal of Progress reported that the Works Progress Administration (WPA) had done “extensive grading and drainage work” to repair flood damage on the "Speedway," the road circling East Potomac Park. That same year, Work also reported unspecified improvements conducted by the WPA to the Washington Channel off Hains Point. That might have included rip-rap along the channel for erosion control,...
- East Potomac Park: Swimming Pool (demolished) - Washington DCEast Potomac Park rests on an artificial peninsula created with dredge spoils from the Potomac River by the Corps of Engineers. The park opened to the public in 1912 and was largely developed in the 1920s. A swimming pool had been contracted for in 1927 but never built. So, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) stepped up in 1935 to take on the project – which was begun in 1936, interrupted by the Potomac flood that year, and completed afterward. The pool was located at the north end of the golf course and for three-quarters of a century it was a "favorite for...
- East Ridge Recreation Area Improvements - Ridgefield CTRidgefield, CT timeline, 1939: "A Works Progress Administration project begins in June to alter and improve the athletic field on East Ridge at the high school."
- East Side Elementary School (demolished) - Nampa IDThe PWA built this six-classroom elementary school in 1937 (docket #1093-RD). It remained in use until 1997, when it was demolished. The site is now East Side Park. Note: the Nampa School District history linked below indicates that the WPA built the school, while the record is found in the PWA archives with a docket listed.
- East Twin Creek Flood Control - San Bernardino CAWPA crews worked on this flood control project on East Twin Creek near San Bernardino.
- East Van Buren Street Improvements - Phoenix AZThe federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to develop and improve Phoenix, Arizona's East Van Buren Street during the 1930s.
- East Waushacum Pond Water Diversion - Sterling MADescription of a New Deal project in a 1937 annual report: "The work of diverting the water of East Waushacum Pond in Sterling, authorized by Acts of 1934, Chapter 346, was begun July 12, 1935 in co-operation with the town of Clinton as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration Project and was continued in 1936 as a Federal Works Progress Administration Project ..."