Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers conducted the following work in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From a W.P.A. Bulletin: WPA beautification of the Cambridge Fresh Pond Parkway golf course includes the filling of unsightly water filled pools, messed with an accumulation of assorted… read more
The zoo is located in Roeding Park. The zoo's history goes back to 1907. The WPA added the cat barn exhibit and small chain link cages in the 1930s.
The stadium was originally built in 1926, but later improved by the WPA. The archival photo pictured details each feature the WPA worked on at and surrounding this stadium, including new adjacent handball and tennis courts. The WPA work on… read more
Fresno received $90,000 from the federal government for sewers, water system, and street drainage. The WPA storm sewer project pictured below cost $55,000.
According to Dennis Copeland, archivist and historian for the City of Monterey in the early 2000s, the decorative stone wall around Friendly Plaza in front of historic Colton Hall in Monterey was partly funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA)…. read more
The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) constructed “a rubble wall … along Front Street to replace the wooden fence which was badly in need of repairs.” There is no such wall along Front Street today. A sewer was constructed along the… read more
“Practically every two-lane highway in Eastern Montana was built with the help of WPA funds, said Jon Axline, a historian with Montana’s Department of Transportation. … Other examples include Highway 87, from Billings to Roundup, and the old Frontage Road,… read more
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a small museum for the town of Fruita, Colorado, in 1938-39. It is constructed in rustic style using large stones and timber gathered from the surrounding area. The building housed the Fruita Times in 1945… read more
"Initially, the college was an integral part of the high school, constituting a two-year post-graduation program, until it became an independent entity in 1925. For several years the college continued to share the high school facilities until the first of… read more
"The building now being used as the Fullerton Museum Center was originally constructed as the citys fourth library and served in that capacity until 1973. William Starbuck started the communitys first library in 1888, in his Gem Pharmacy on the… read more
"Presently occupied by Fullerton Police Department, this graceful three-level building with Spanish Colonial Revival architecture was originally dedicated as the City Hall in July 1942. The concrete building is L-shaped, with a three-story tower and cupola placed at the central… read more
“In a remodel of the building in the 1960s, the mural in the former city council chambers was covered over. Post-surrealism artist Helen Lundberg painted this three-panel mural, entitled The History of California, in 1942, as an art project under… read more
Construction of a trades building- a two story reinforced concrete structure- meant to be used for instruction of various technical trades such as aeronautics, navigation, diesel engines, electrical work and radio.
This mural is located in the Louis Plummer Auditorium, at Fullerton Union High School: “A 75-foot long, 15-foot high mural entitled “Pastoral California”, painted by W.P.A. artist Charles Kassler in 1934, is found on the west side of the building… read more
The airport was initially constructed in the 1930s, probably the late 1930s, by the WPA with three turf runways. These are still being used, one is now concrete, one asphalt, the last is still turf.
In 1940 the Department of Parks announced the opening of a new playground was opened in what is today Fulton Park, located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The playground was “designed by the Park Department and built and landscaped… read more
Built clubhouse as a neighborhood improvement, containing clubroom with fireplace, kitchen and office, directors and caretakers.
This culvert is L-shaped, with the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) shield showing the year as 1938. The tunnel is concrete and about 2 ft. high by 5 ft. wide. It runs east-west. A paved roadway crosses the culvert into Fuqua… read more
W.P.A. project descriptions: “Furnace Brook Parkway; fill was furnished and placed for a parking space in the rear of the Quincy Armory; the commission being a co-sponsor with the City of Quincy.” “Furnace Brook Parkway; landscaping work was done along… read more
Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported: “Started Oct. 6, WPA crews established a record here when they completed the $26,000 “G” street pedestrian subway weeks ahead of schedule. The new 92-foot concrete subway connects with a long railroad underpass.” The… read more
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) repaved a long segment of G Street SE, from Fourth Street to Eleventh Street, in 1935-36. “The streetcar tracks and the old granite block paving were removed from the roadway of G Street SE.,… read more
The G. B. Cooley Tuberculosis sanatorium was constructed by the Works Progress Administration. It was located at Pine Top, seven miles from Monroe, Louisiana, or at White’s Ferry, 3 1/2 miles from Monroe, depending on source. The WPA provided $66,303… read more
This bridge was built during the Great Depression with the assistance of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was constructed of pipes and serviced the G. B. Cooley Tuberculosis Sanatorium at White’s Ferry in West Monroe, Louisiana.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to construct “a recreation field extending from 15th to 19th Sts. inclusive on Newark Bay front.” Additionally they constructed two comfort stations, walks, pathways and roadways; and undertook “filling, grading, and seeding the… read more
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Gadsden Municipal Amphitheater in 1935. Built from locally sourced stone, the facility was designed by Alabama architect Paul W. Hofferbert. The WPA cost was $17,316.00. The structure is still in service today and… read more
The Department of Parks acquired this land, later named the Galapo Playground, in 1940 and announced the completion of a playground on the site in July 1941: “New concrete walks have been centered in the 24′ sidewalk area along Avenue… read more
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved the safety conditions for traffic and students at Galileo High School by constructing a pedestrian underpass under Bay Street. Built reinforced concrete tunnel connecting school and field; removed old 20 inch sewer and… read more
Jim Jenks writes: “Designed in the Moderne style” popular at the time, “Gallatin County’s 1936 courthouse at 311 West Main Street was one of several federally financed projects that brought jobs and civic improvements to Bozeman during the Great Depression.”… read more
According to the Illinois Office of the Governor, WPA crews built the new Shawneetown courthouse in 1938 after the flood of 1937 forced the original town to be relocated.
The WPA undertook projects to improve roads throughout Gallatin County. Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported that $16,503 was approved for such work in July 1938 alone.
The original Gallinger Hospital dates back to 1846, when the hospital was first located on the banks of the Anacostia River. The hospital moved to this site during the Civil War, with frame buildings meant to house wounded soldiers and… read more
Montpelier’s 40th Annual Report details many roadwork projects undertaken in 1934 with Vermont Emergency Relief Administration (VERA) funds, including: “Gallison Hill Road, grading”. Efforts were continued in subsequent years by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
The Works Progress Administration built approximately 30 galvanized culverts with concrete head-walls throughout Brewton, Escambia County. These culverts have replaced the old wooden structures throughout the city.
The Works Progress Administration completed improvements to the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital Improvements in Galveston TX. According to a Waxahachie Daily Light, 1938, federal funds sponsored the following improvements work at the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital: “[i]mprove drives on grounds of… read more
The Works Progress Administration installed new sewer lines on Gamle Gade in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.
A reinforced concrete one story building at 19th Ave. between Taraval and Santiago Streets, designed to conform to the general character of neighborhood, to be used for storage of equipment and service tools of Street Cleaning Division.–Healy, p. 49.
The WPA constructed a half-million-dollar garbage dump facility at the East River Drive and 91st Street, jutting out into the East River. The facility is reached by a “vamp” over the now-FDR Drive. The “building, which resembles an airplane hangar, covers… read more
