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  • Sparks Building Addition (PSU) - State College PA
    An addition to Pennsylvania State University's Sparks Building was constructed during the Great Depression as part of a massive construction project enabled by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The building is still in use today.
  • Spaulding High School - Rochester NH
    Rochester, New Hampshire's historic Spaulding High School was constructed with the aid of federal funds during the Great Depression. The building is still in use today. "Spaulding High School, which opened in 1939, is considered one of the most beautiful high school facilities in New England. With the addition of the Richard W. Creteau Regional Technology Center in 1990, the original building was extensively renovated." "RESOLUTION FROM CITY COUNCIL FOR APPLICATION TO FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION FOR GRANT FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Resolved by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Rochester: Application Resolution—Resolution No. A resolution authorizing the City of Rochester,...
  • Spaulding School Retaining Wall - Barre VT
    The W.P.A. provided labor toward the construction of a retaining wall at what was then the Spaulding School in 1938.
  • Spencer High School Bleachers - Spencer WV
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built concrete bleachers for the Spencer High School near in Spencer, Roane County.
  • Spencer State Hospital Clinic (demolished) - Spencer WV
    The Public Works Administration funded the construction of a new clinic, part of the State Hospital for Mental Diseases (also known as the Spencer State Hospital for Mental Diseases) in Spencer, Roane County. The addition was built in 1937 and was a five-bed facility. The State Hospital for Mental Diseases closed in July 1989 and demolished in 2005. The condition of the structure is unknown to the Living New Deal.
  • Sports and Health Gym (Old Giddings School) - Washington DC
    The former Giddings School at 315 E Street SE, built in 1887, was enlarged  in 1934 with the assistance of a Public Works Administration (PWA) grant to the DC Board of Education.  The J.R. Giddings school is historically significant by virtue of its role as the first all-black public school in Washington DC. The enlargement added 12 classrooms and an auditorium.  It was done in the same brick Colonial Revival style as the handsome old building. While we cannot be certain, it appears that wings were added on both sides of the original building, plus a low wing on the south side. The...
  • Spring Cove School District Building - Roaring Spring PA
    What is now the Spring Cove School District Building in Roaring Spring, PA was built in 1936-7 as a New Deal project: the Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $70,650 grant for the school construction project in Bradford, whose total cost was $159,117. PWA Docket No. PA 1027
  • Spring Dell School (former) - Chandler OK
    "Spring Dell School was built in 1936 as a WPA project at a cost of $4,000. It served as a school until 1976 when the district was annexed by Chandler, Meeker and White Rock districts. A plaque on the building reads: "Spring Dell District 75 / 1936 / WPA Project 980". This is a native stone one-room school house, which has exposed rafters and a gable roof. The stone has been painted an earth tone. The typical WPA ribbon windows which consisted of a set of five nine-over-nine wood windows have been infilled with weatherboarding, leaving very small two-pane windows. There...
  • Spring Hill Elementary School Improvements - Pittsburgh PA
    A project involving "some alterations and equipment for the Spring Hill elementary school" was undertaken in 1936 as part of a New Deal project, sponsored by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The PWA provided a $24,083 grant for the project, whose total cost was $58,781. PWA Docket No. PA 1156
  • Spring Hill High School (former) - Spring Hill TN
    The former school "retains much of its architectural presence, especially in the four brick pilasters with Doric capitals that define its central entrance" (Van West, 2001, p. 113). It closed as a school in 1992 and is currently used to house small businesses.
  • Springville Elementary School Stonework and Additions - Springville CA
    The WPA added four classrooms to an older school building, and they remain in use today. Stonework retaining walls, drinking fountains and an entrance were also built, possibly by CCC workers from the nearby Springville CCC camp. Springville Elementary School was originally a K-8 school.
  • Springville Museum of Art - Springville UT
    In 1935-37, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built an art museum for the city of Springville UT.  The building was designed in the style of the Spanish Colonial Revival style by local architect Claud S. Ashworth. The Nebo School District donated the land, the town of Springville granted $29,000 in materials and tools, and the Mormon/LDS church offered another $20,000. The WPA contribution was $54,000, chiefly in labor costs. WPA workers also manufactured the decorative tile for the museum. The Springville Museum of Art is, in fact, the oldest museum in Utah for the visual fine arts. In 1964, a two story wing was...
  • Springville School Gymnasium - Springville IN
    Flat paired doors, flat windows. Typical mid 19th cen school building. Constructed by the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1936 and 1937.
  • St. George School - St. George UT
    The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the St. George School in St. George, Washington County School District. Docket # 1223-R (Utah). The exact location and condition of this facility is unknown to the Living New Deal.
  • St. James High School - St. James MO
    The Public Works Administration completed this expansion of St. James High School in 1940. The building's cornerstone was laid on October 11, 1940 by the Grand Masonic Lodge of Missouri, of which U.S. Senator and future President Harry S. Truman was Grand Master.
  • St. Petersburg College: Administration Building - St. Petersburg FL
    St. Petersburg College was formerly known of St. Petersburg Junior College. It was established in 1927. The WPA built the school's first permanent structure: "The first permanent new building — housing classrooms, offices, the library and an auditorium named for Captain Lynch — was erected at what is now the corner of Fifth Avenue N and 66th Street. Built with WPA labor, it cost $91,000; equipment worth about $100,000 was transferred from the old building, mostly during the December 1941 holiday break. The new building and its contents were valued at a quarter of a million dollars. The first classes were...
  • St. Simons Coast Guard Station - St. Simons Island GA
    This WPA Coast Guard Station at St. Simons Island, GA was built from 1935-1937. The building is still in existence, but is now a museum rather than a USCG facility. "In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), authorized the building of 45 United States Coast Guard Stations around the country. Later that same year, Georgia Senator Walter F. George, and Georgia Congressman Braswell Deen obtained an $115,000 appropriation from Congress for the new Coast Guard Station and Boathouse to be built on St. Simons Island. Work began in the fall of 1935 and of...
  • St. Thomas Hospital - Colby KS
    The Works Progress Administration built the St. Thomas hospital in Colby KS in 1941. According to Kansas Historical Society, "St. Thomas Hospital was constructed in 1941 through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal program that funded the construction of 130 new hospitals nationwide and improvements to 1,670 more. There were only two new hospitals in Kansas constructed with WPA funds, one in Colby and the other in Oswego. The three-story Colby hospital was designed by Kansas City architect Joseph Radotinsky in the Georgian Revival style utilizing brick salvaged from the old high school on the same site. The facility was expanded...
  • Stafford Hall (WTAMU) - Canyon TX
    WTAMU's Stafford Hall was constructed as a New Deal project during the 1930s. Construction was undertaken with the aid of Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds.
  • Stafford Training School - Stafford VA
    "Built in 1939 during the Great Depression by the Public Works Administration on eight acres of land purchased with private donations from black citizens who had formed a “county league” for that purpose, the Stafford Training School was the only African-American high school in Stafford County during the era of segregation. Today it is the most significant site in the Fredericksburg area to interpret the struggle for desegregating Virginia’s public schools. In 1960, students from the training school were the first to attempt school integration in the area by attending the all-white Stafford County High School. That attempt failed, but...
  • Stanford Settlement Neighborhood Center - Sacramento CA
    In 1939, the Works Progress Administration built an elementary school that is now the the Stanford Settlement Neighborhood Center—a Community Resources Center.
  • Stanton Elementary School - Washington DC
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for the construction of the Stanton Elementary School, on Naylor Road SE, in 1943, at the very end of the New Deal (New Deal programs wound down as the country went to war). Stanton is still in use as a public elementary school.
  • Star School Building - Star ID
    In 1939, the Public Works Administration funded the construction of a school building in Star, Idaho. Project docket No. Idaho 1083D 3/14/39. The architect of record was Wayland & Fennel. The exact location and present status of the structure is unknown to the Living New Deal.  
  • Starr King Elementary School - Long Beach CA
    Designed by William E. Webb in WPA/PWA Moderne style, Starr King Elementary School was built in 1934 with Public Works Administration (PWA) funding. The 1933 Long Beach Earthquake destroyed hundreds of schools throughout Southern California. “On August 29, 1933, Long Beach citizens approved a $4,930,000 bond measure for the rebuilding of schools. Applications for approximately thirty-five schools were filed with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Public Works Administration (PWA); federal grants up to thirty percent of labor and material costs were obtained. To minimize costs, building materials were salvaged from damaged buildings, some schools were rehabilitated, and new schools were...
  • Starr King Elementary School Rebuild (replaced) - San Francisco CA
    In 1935-36, the Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for the partial reconstruction of a 1913 wooden school building (removal of the 3d floor) and the addition of a new wing that added six classrooms. Verplanck and Graves (p. 113) provide further detail: "Similar to Patrick Henry School, Starr King Elementary was deemed unsafe due to vulnerability to fire and earthquakes. The scope of work for Starr King removal of the third floor and the construction of a reinforced-concrete addition containing six classrooms. The work was designed by City Architect Charles H. Sawyer and completed in 1935 or 1936." The follow-up to the...
  • State Agricultural School (former) Athletic Field - Canton NY
    The Massena Observer wrote in 1938 that the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped to develop an athletic field at the old New York State Agricultural School in Canton, New York. The student body helped to spearhead the project by obtaining funds for the cost of materials. The institution now partly comprises SUNY Canton.
  • State Board of Health Laboratory Extension - Jackson MS
    The state health board of Mississippi was allocated $5,420.31 to erect an extension to the laboratory for the health department located at the Old Capitol building in Jackson. The new addition to the laboratory was completed in November 1934 with funding from ERA. The addition included a "new and modern animal pen, with a concrete floor" (Union Appeal, 1934, p. 1). The pen, and its "cyclone proof iron fence" was for animals such as rabbits, guinea pigs, and white mice, used in the manufacture of serum. The laboratory tested animals suspected of rabies in order to provide anti-rabies treatments.
  • State Center Middle School Gym - Jones OK
    "State Center Middle School is located at 16011 N. E. Wilshire in Jones. This is a small brick school, with the east end being a gymnasium that was WPA-built. The gymnasium is a rectangular simple-styled building, with a barrel roof. The front of the building, facing south,has four bays, separated by wide brick columns...Several windows have been bricked in on the east and north sides. A single metal entrance with a wood ramp accesses the rear of the gymnasium. There is a large open gazebo at the front of the building which may post-date the building. There is no WPA marking...
  • State Charity Hospital Improvements - Jackson MS
    State Charity Hospital Improvements in Jackson MS was built with federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) funds in 1935. $18,000 was allotted for the Charity hospital project. N. W. Overstreet was the architect for main building and nurses home renovations in 1934-1935. The hospital was constructed in 1912, closed in 1955, and demolished prior to 1962.
  • State Industrial Home (demolished) - Oakland CA
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) continued work at this facility from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). WPA project No. 65-3-2140, Approval Date 10-25-35, $1.045, "Paint Int. State Industr. Home. ERA" (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) Excerpt from Oakland Wiki: "The Industrial Home for the Adult Blind (sometimes the Industrial Home of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind) was established in 1885 at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street, on the eastern half of the former Peter Thomson estate. The Home went through a number of changes, and then became the State-operated Orientation Center for the Blind in 1951. In...
  • State Industrial School Improvements - Ogden UT
    The Public Works Administration funded improvements at the Utah State Industrial School in Ogden. Docket # 1112-R (Utah).
  • State Narcotic Hospital Spadra Improvements - Pomona CA
    The State Narcotic Hospital Spadra was a once separate program within the grounds of what is known today as the Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona, CA. No records exist since the unincorporated area known as Spadra was annexed into the City of Pomona. 3 different New Deal relief agencies were involved in reconstruction efforts at this mental health facility. WPA #1E B20 810, CWA SLF #61, & SERA#S1 B1 174. Records at the Pasadena Museum of History describe New Deal work at the site: "This (WPA) project was opened January 11, 1935 and was suspended May 2, 1935 at the request of...
  • State Police Post (former) - Romeo MI
    Constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), what was originally the Michigan State Police District 2 post in Romeo now houses the Romeo Historical Society Museum. The post opened on Oct. 6, 1936.
  • State School for Girls (former) - Hallowell ME
    "An infirmary and dormitory buildings were built at the State School for Girls."   (Short and Stanley-Brown) "The town of Hallowell is home to the Stevens School, a historically significant campus that stands as testament to Maine’s social and educational history. Formerly known as The Maine Industrial School for Girls, the school opened in 1875 and boasts several buildings showcasing the Colonial Revival style of architecture. Maine Industrial became the Stevens School in 1915 and functioned as a state facility until 1970, when it closed its doors. State offices then moved onto the campus, along with the Maine State Prison Pre-Release...
  • State School for the Blind Boys Dormitory - Jackson MS
    The boys' dormitory at the State School for the Blind was designed by architects Hull & Drummond in 1934 as part of a $220,000 project using state funds and ERA funds with WPA labor. The new brick 2-story dormitory was constructed to relieve crowded conditions at the school, and cost in excess of $40,000. An additional $3,587 was awarded in September 1935 in order to complete the dormitory. It was used in the Gilfoy School of Nursing after the school relocated in the late 1940s, and was demolished c. 2005 in order to build a parking lot.
  • State School for the Deaf Improvements - Jackson MS
    The State School for the Deaf, originally constructed 1906-1908, removed a wall and rebuilt one wing on the east wing in order to correct surface drainage damaging the wall. The project, financed by ERA and the state legislature replaced glass, plastered walls, and updated electrical and plumbing systems for a total cost of $39,938.25. The facility was demolished in 1951 following the construction of a new school.
  • State School Improvements - Ellisville MS
    The State School at Ellisville received $15,000 for repairing the boys’ and girls’ dormitories, including roof, floors, windows, and painting. Three employee cottages were improved with painting, woodwork repair, and modern plumbing installation. The grounds were graded and landscaped. The old boys dormitory and old girls dormitory were constructed 1929 and are possibly the dorms that were renovated, and are extant, as are the employee cottages, constructed in 1930.
  • State School of Agriculture (former) Improvements - Delhi NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement and construction work at what was then the State School of Agriculture in Delhi, New York. The Catskill Mountain News wrote: Improvements to the Delhi state school will include construction of a farm mechanics and shop building, poultry house, cattle barn and cottage. The milk house will be repaired and enlarged, and the exterior of the barn, administration building, shop and homemaking buildings and the interior of the administration building will be painted. The total cost of these improvements will be $42,216.95. The institution now partly comprises SUNY Delhi.
  • State Street Elementary School - South Gate CA
    State Street Elementary School, which opened in 1932, 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...
  • State Supreme Court and Library - Cheyenne WY
    The Wyoming State Supreme Court building is situated in central Cheyenne, the state capital. It is a restrained example of Art Deco architecture in the neo-classical mode, with elegant bas-relief decorations, inscriptions and brass (-plated?) doorways and surrounding decoration. It was built in 1937 with aid from the Public Works Administration (PWA) and is still in active use. "This structure is immediately opposite the present State Capitol Building and is an important unit of a well-developed plan for the State and municipal group, occupying a square which is landscaped and surrounded by streets.  The building is three stories in height and...
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