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  • Leahi Home (Leahi Hospital) - Honolulu HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the Leahi Home in Honolulu. The PWA grant amounted to $112,500, and the work was carried out in 1938. Listed as Docket No. TH-1085-F, the project was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. Leahi Home was renamed Leahi Hospital in 1942, and it is still in service today.
  • Lebanon Middle School Ground Improvements - Lebanon VA
    The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)'s "constructive project work" in Russell County, Virginia included "the Lebanon school ground." Living New Deal believes this facility to be the historic 1925 high school building in Lebanon, now Lebanon Middle School.
  • Lee Elementary School - Columbia MO
    Robert E. Lee Elementary School was built as Federal Public Works Project # 3701 in 1934. The school is a three story building with a multi-purpose auditorium on the first floor with ornate reliefs surrounding the stage. The building was built to last and is currently in use as Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School, a magnet school in the heart of the city of Columbia. In February 2014, the school received a Most Notable Properties designation from the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission.
  • Lee School - Pauls Valley OK
    The Lee School is one of three schools built by the Works Progress Administration in Pauls Valley between 1939 and 1940. Contributor Note: "Lee Elementary School is located at 300 W. Bert at the corner of N. Ash Street, and is an active elementary school today. The streets in Pauls Valley run SE-NE/SW/NW. It has an Art Deco theme, which was rare for the architect Albert S. Ross. The school is a one story buff brick building constructed in an L-shape, with a flat roof. Additions added to each end later have been constructed to closely match the original. The windows are set...
  • Lee School Wall - Duncan OK
    Lee School was a Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA)-built school that was constructed in 1936, with an appropriation of $49,242. The school no longer stands, and all that remains are the concrete sidewalks stamped with the WPA shield, and a roughly made sandstone wall which runs along the south and west sides of the property. A newer elementary school has been built on the east half of the property.
  • Lee Williams High School Gymnasium/Auditorium - Kingman AZ
    "This combination gymnasium-auditorium has permanent seating at the sides and will accommodate approximately 400 spectators for athletic and dramatic events. Its construction is of interest. The foundations, first-floor slab, and buttresses are concrete, exterior walls of painted brick and the roof of Lamella type, the thrust of which is taken by the buttresses. The project was completed in March 1936 at a construction cost of $28,237 and a project cost of $30,285." (Short and Brown) "Kingman High School's history dates back to the beginning of Mohave County, Arizona. When the original school was built in 1917, it...
  • Lee's Summit History Museum (old Post Office) - Lee's Summit MO
    This building was constructed as the town post office by the Treasury Department in 1939. Purchased and used as the City Hall from the 1960's to 2006, the building is still owned by the City of Lee's Summit but is on a short-term lease to ReDiscover, a mental health organization, for offices. With the passage of a recent bond issue, the City will be turning the structure over to the Lee's Summit Historical Society for use as a museum. -Denise Chisum, City Clerk for the City of Lee's Summit
  • Lehman College - Bronx NY
    "Lehman's Historic Campus page states that the “the first four buildings in the plan—Gillet and Davis halls, the Music Building, and the Gymnasium—were completed in 1931 by the New York State Works Progress Administration”. Strictly speaking, this would not be the New Deal WPA (as, for example, claimed by Wikipedia), but a primordial WPA launched by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was New York's governor, 1929-32, where he “established a number of new social programs, and was advised by Frances Perkins and Harry Hopkins” (key players in the federal New Deal). To confuse matters further, the site was the Bronx...
  • Leland Elementary School - Leland MS
    The Leland Elementary School was designed by N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town, and was constructed in 1935 as part of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (later renamed the PWA). The building complex illustrates the simplicity of the Modern movement that evolved during the Great Depression.
  • Leland Street Elementary School - San Pedro CA
    Leland Street Elementary School, which opened in 1922, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1934 and 1935. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District for the rehabilitation of schools damaged in the severe 1933 Long Beach earthquake.  One hundred and thirty schools would benefit from the system-wide loan and grant, with 2,500 men to be employed in rehabilitation work over 21 months. Upon receiving news of the PWA allocation, Board of Education member Arthur Eckman told the Los Angeles Times, “I am sure that every member of the board agrees with...
  • Lemington Elementary School (former) - Pittsburgh PA
    Pittsburgh's historic, Art Deco-style Lemington Elementary School building was built in 1937 as a New Deal project: the Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $176,693 grant for the project, whose total cost was $428,894. "Portions of the exterior are ornamented with terra cotta, and feature Mayan-inspired motifs such as an amber sunburst frieze and stylized human faces. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986." It is no longer in service as a school. PWA Docket No. PA 1316
  • Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School - Los Angeles CA
    Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School (formerly Thirty-Seventh Street Elementary School), which opened in 1899, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1934 and 1935. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District for the rehabilitation of schools damaged in the severe 1933 Long Beach earthquake. One hundred and thirty schools would benefit from the system-wide loan and grant, with 2,500 men to be employed in rehabilitation work over 21 months. Upon receiving news of the PWA allocation, Board of Education member Arthur Eckman told the Los Angeles Times, “I am sure that...
  • Leon County Health Unit - Tallahassee FL
    The Leon County Health Unit was completed in 1940 as a $40,000 project jointly funded by Leon County, the City of Tallahassee, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was the first permanent home for the Leon County Health Unit, which was the oldest in the state and the first specially designed health unit built as a county WPA project in the state of Florida. The facility was a direct result of the Florida Health Unit Law of 1931, which authorized counties in Florida “to cooperate with the State Board of Health in the establishment and maintenance of full-time local health units...
  • Leon High School - Tallahassee FL
    Sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA, Leon High School was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. "The builder was Thomas Monk, who built dozens of high schools and commercial buildings around Florida, including the Monk Building in downtown Bradenton ..." PWA Docket No. W1024
  • Leon High School Stadium and Playground - Tallahassee FL
    "A new concrete stadium and playground at Leon High School in Tallahassee was completed through the combined efforts of the WPA, the City of Tallahassee, Leon County, and the local Junior Chamber of Commerce."
  • Leonard Dober School Addition - Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas VI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) built “one additional room for Dober School Building.” The cost of the PWA work was $3,899.35.
  • Leslie J. Savage Library, Western State College - Gunnison CO
    From History Colorado:  "The library is an excellent example of the Spanish Colonial Revival style as executed by Temple Hoyne Buell, a prominent Denver architect, developer, and philanthropist. The library was constructed in 1939 on the campus of the State Normal School for Western State College (now Western State College) with the aid of Public Works Administration funds. In 1964, a newer three-story building was attached to the northeast corner of the original library by way of a one-story corridor."
  • Letchworth Village (abandoned) Development - Thiells NY
    The former, and since-abandoned, Letchworth Village institution was expanded with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $204,592 grant for the project, whose total cost was $460,431. Construction occurred between Mar. 1936 and Jul. 1937. One document summarizes the project as "HOSP ADD," Location: Pomona. PWA Docket No. NY 1250
  • Letterman General Hospital - San Francisco CA
    Painting the interior of 14 buildings and the exterior of 8 buildings. Replacement of 10,350 lineal feet of heating and hot water pipe including tanks, valves, fittings, pipe covering, and hangers in the heating and hot water distribution systems. Construct new hardwood floors in 12 buildings, and install underground electric distributing lines to replace 8,000 lineal feet of overhead lines. Landscape 8 acres.--Mooser, p. 89.
  • Leuzinger High School Improvements - Lawndale CA
    The school originally opened in 1931, and the WPA improved the school grounds later in the 1930s.
  • Levering Hospital Addition - Hannibal MO
    This was the second addition to Levering Hospital.  At the time, it ran in a straight east-west manner with the 1942 addition at the far east end of the building.  The main entrance pictured is part of the original building from 1903.
  • Lew Wallace Elementary School - Albuquerque NM
    "Built in 1934, it's the first of many New Mexico projects of the Public Works Administration, a federal New Deal program to counteract the Great Depression of 1929-1942. Lew Wallace, a US Army general during the mid-19th century, governed the New Mexico Territory from 1878 to 1881. He's better known for writing the Biblical-era historical novel, Ben Hur."   (https://www.itsatrip.org/) "A number of other APS buildings were built, remodeled, or had additions built as the result of this source of this source of funding. Likewise adjacent school playgrounds, ball fields, etc. were also created. The schools include Armijo, Coronado, Duranes, Five...
  • Lewis County Infirmary Repairs - Weston WV
    The Works Progress Administration completed improvements for the Lewis County Infirmary. According the the Charleston Gazette (1936), "The work consisted of “Repairing, renovating and Improving Lewis county infirmary.” The exact location and condition of this facility are unknown to the Living New Deal.
  • Lewis Maire Elementary School - Grosse Pointe MI
    Lewis Maire Elementary was built in 1936 with PWA funding. From Waymarking.com: "The Lewis Maire Elementary School opened on October 20, 1936. Designed by Detroit architects, H. August O'Dell and Wirt C. Rowland, the school reflects the English Gothic Revival style. Copper moldings and gutters, multi-paned windows and the steeply pitched gabled entrance typify Rowland's Gothic designs. The interior is distinguished by Pewabic tile fireplaces and fishponds. The school's namesake, Lewis E. Maire, was a prominent ophthalmologist who served on the Grosse Pointe Boards of Education and Health as well as the village board of supervisors."
  • Lewis-Clark State College Gymnasium - Lewiston ID
    "The gymnasium room is flanked on two sides by bleachers and there are additional seating spaces over the entrance lobby and locker rooms. Doors at the rear of the building open directly to the athletic field. The exterior walls are concrete with a rubbed finish and are painted with cement paint as a protection against moisture. Interior partitions are wood. Windows above the bleachers and three skylights provide ample light. The old building was remodeled for use as administrative offices for the school. The project was completed in November 1938 at a construction cost of $74,310 and a project cost...
  • Lewisohn Stadium (demolished) - New York NY
    In the summer of 1935, the College of the City of New York (today's City College of New York), completed construction of the north ramp of Lewisohn Stadium with funding from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) (CCNY Newspaper). Lewisohn Stadium was an amphitheater that served as a public space for athletic, musical, and theatrical performances. The stadium was razed in 1973 in order to expand the academic facilities on campus (CCNY Libraries). Lewisohn Plaza now encompasses the area of what was once the stadium (New York Times).
  • Lewisport High School (former) - Lewisport KY
    The Works Progress Administration built the Lewisport High School in Lewisport, Hancock County, KY in 1938. The Lewisport High School was located on 2nd Street in Lewisport, KY from 1938-2018. In January 2018 it was demolished to be replaced with a new library.
  • Libby Anthony Hall, Lincoln University - Jefferson City MO
    In 1940, the Public Works Administration (PWA) financed this three-story brick building as a dormitory to house female students at Lincoln University. It is named after Libby Anthony, a “matron” of girls and an instructor in the department of domestic economy.  
  • Liberty Boulevard Elementary School - South Gate CA
    Liberty Boulevard Elementary School, which opened in 1932, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1934 and 1935. The school appears to have been rebuilt yet again in the 1970s or 80s, although the PWA auditorium may remain—confirmation is needed. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District for the rehabilitation of schools damaged in the severe 1933 Long Beach earthquake.  One hundred and thirty schools would benefit from the system-wide loan and grant, with 2,500 men to be employed in rehabilitation work over 21 months. Upon receiving news of the PWA allocation,...
  • Liberty High School Organ - Bethlehem PA
    The Durner-Fritzsche organ at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Liberty High School was constructed in 1933. "The organ was installed in 1933-34, answering to an invitation to bid advertised by Mr. Clifford F. Frey; Sec. School District of the City of Bethlehem. The instrument installed met the requirement in the bid advertisement for a "used instrument in guaranteed condition". The project was a joint effort by the fledgling Fritzsche Organ Co., (formerly the Durner Co.), Organ Supply Co. of Erie, PA and the Civil Works Administration of Northampton County (CWA)."
  • Liberty School Improvements (demolished) - Murray UT
    Several school construction projects in Murray, Utah were undertaken during the New Deal with the help of the Public Works Administration (PWA). One was at the Liberty Elementary School, turning the basement into three new classrooms and constructing a kitchen and cafeteria.  These improvements were completed in Fall 1939. The school has since been replaced.
  • Library - Blue Hill ME
    Built to replace the former library that shared an 1895 building with the town hall. "By the early 1930s, the Town Hall location was too small. Even though these were the years of the Depression, plans began for a new library. Adelaide Pearson, who had moved to Blue Hill in 1928, took on the formidable task. She was described as “a small woman who got things done” and had a vision for a library that was an integral part of the community, serving more than as a place to store and retrieve books. To fulfill that dream, she organized a fundraising campaign...
  • Library - Chesterfield NH
    The current stone Chesterfield Library building opened in 1939. Constructed as a New Deal project, the facility was built with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. PWA Docket No. NH 1130
  • Library - Dayton WA
    The library in Dayton, Washington was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds during 1937. The building, which has since been extended, is still in use today. PWA Docket No. WA 1318
  • Library - De Pere WI
    The De Pere Public Library was constructed in 1935-6 with federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The P.W.A. supplied an $13,891 grant for the project, whose total cost was $33,275. PWA Docket No. WI 1034
  • Library - Forrest City AR
    The Forrest City Public Library was constructed between 1938-39 and was designed by the Little Rock, Arkansas, firm of Sanders & Ginocchio. The PWA provided a grant of $10,791 for the project, whose total cost was $24,242. It was the first purpose-built public library in the city and was funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works as Project No. ARK. 1147-F. It has continuously functioned as a library since its completion. The only alteration to the building occurred in 1976, when a rear addition was constructed. The interior still mostly appears the same way it did historically. Forrest City Library:...
  • Library - Harrison NJ
    The Harrison N.J. Public Library was constructed in 1936-8 as a New Deal project: the Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $42,476 grant for the project. "The overall dimensions of the building are 94 by 60 feet. In the basement there are a community room, staff room, workroom, boiler room, and toilets. On the first floor are a reading room, a stack room, and librarian's office. There is an exhibit room on the mezzanine floor. It is fireproof with concrete floors, steel trusses, and brick bearing walls. The roofing is slate. It was completed in February 1938 at a construction cost of $79,041...
  • Library - Hobbs NM
    The Hobbs Public Library in Hobbs, New Mexico was originally constructed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. The building has been renovated and expanded multiple times since.
  • Library - Honokaa HI
    Honokaa Public Library was constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. Construction is sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), as it is on a plaque on the building. The library, which was designed by Harry K. Stewart, was completed in 1936. The building used the same design as the Molokai Public Library. PWA Docket No. T. H. 1038-B
  • Library - Horton KS
    The historic Horton Public Library building in Horton, Kansas was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The PWA supplied a $10,273 grant for the project, whose total cost was $22,838. Construction occurred between Aug. and Dec. 1938. PWA Docket No. Kan. 1348
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