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New Deal Category: Golf Courses

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Arcadia County Park – Arcadia CA

Arcadia Golf Clubhouse and Greens

Referred to in the archives as Arcadia Recreation Center. “During World War I, this site was known as Ross Field, a U.S. balloon training school for more than 3,500 military personnel. WPA workers transformed the area into a park and… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation, Swimming Pools, Tennis Courts
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Arizona State University: Golf Course – Tempe AZ

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the golf course at the Arizona State Teachers College in Tempe (today the Arizona State University).

Project type: Colleges and Universities, Education and Health, Golf Courses
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Bastrop State Park – Bastrop TX

This beautiful park is nestled in the “Lost Pines” area of Texas. The park was built as a CCC project and opened to the public in 1937. In September 2011 96% of the park was burned by a devastating wildfire;… read more

Project type: Campgrounds and Cabins, Golf Courses, Parks and recreation, Swimming Pools
New Deal Agencies: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Battle Island State Park Golf Course Improvements – Fulton NY

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve the public golf course at Battle Island State Park.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Bethpage State Park – Farmingdale NY

Bethpage State Park is a 1,476-acre New York state park on the border of Nassau County and Suffolk County on Long Island. It is best known for its five golf courses, including the Bethpage Black Course. “The park’s clubhouse and… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Bowden Golf Course – Macon GA

The WPA helped build Bowden Golf Course in 1940. From the Bowden Golf Course website: “The 18-hole Bowden Golf Course in Macon, Georgia is a public golf course that opened in 1940. Designed by W.P.A., Bowden Golf Course measures 6570… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Brewton Alabama Country Club and Airport Facilities – Brewton AL

The Works Progress Administration built the Brewton Alabama Country Club and facilities for an adjacent airport on Highway 31 in Brewton. Next to the country club, the WPA built a nine-hole golf course, a landing field, 5000 linear feet of runway, and… read more

Project type: Airports, Golf Courses, Infrastructure and Utilities, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Brunswick Country Club – Brunswick GA

A former municipal golf course in Brunswick Georgia built by Donald Ross and the WPA. It was purchased in the 1950’s as a private club and has recently been rehabilitated.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Buffalo Golf Course: Club House – Buffalo WY

The Works Progress Administration built the club house for the Buffalo Golf Course in Buffalo, Johnson County.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Buffalo Hill Golf Club, Cameron Course – Kalispell MT

The WPA constructed the 9-hole Cameron Course at what is now Buffalo Hill Golf Club. From the Buffalo Hill Golf Club website: “In the early 1930’s, land was purchased where part of the Cameron 9 holes now resides. The Cameron… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Camp Long – Seattle WA

Camp Long is a 68-acre park in West Seattle. The park was constructed with WPA help starting n 1937. It was dedicated in 1941. WPA work in the park includes extensive rock work, the construction of a golf course, cabins… read more

Project type: Campgrounds and Cabins, Golf Courses, Lodges, Ranger Stations and Visitor Centers, Parks and recreation, Paths and Trails
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Chenango Valley State Park Golf Course – Chenango Forks NY

NYSParks.com: “Located in Chenango Valley State Park in scenic Broome County, the original 9-hole course, known as Riverside Golf Course, was designed by engineer James Evans and landscape architect Laurie Cox and constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

City Golf Course – Idabel OK

The golf course was built in 1940, and is one of only two golf courses built by the Federal Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma. This a 160-acre, 18-hole course sits on the southeast edge of town and is currently leased to… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

City Park – Anson TX

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) began work on the development of a city park, swimming pool, and golf course in January 1939. Bath houses, seats, wading pool, bandstand, rock veneer golf house with showers, and picnic tables of rock veneer… read more

Project type: Bathhouses, Golf Courses, Parks and recreation, Picnic and Other Facilities, Swimming Pools
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Country Club Clubhouse (former) – Rock Hill SC

“South of town, the WPA built a rustic club building for the 9-hole golf course at a new country club; the building, however, was heavily altered and later burned.” The building “served as a city-owned recreation center until its conversion… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, No Longer Extant, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

D.W. Field Golf Course Development – Brockton MA

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers expanded D.W. Field Golf Course in Brockton, Mass. WPA Bulletin: Brockton WPA added ten acres to the original 30 acres of fairways, built bunkers to tax the skill of players, widened fairways and did extensive… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Deming Country Club – Deming NM

"Golf was played on land leased and eventually purchased from the City of Deming. The original course (nine holes) started with sand greens, but since sand tended to blow out in strong winds magnetite was used to replace the sand…. read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Douglas Community Club (Municipal Golf Course) – Douglas WY

The Works Progress Administration built the Municipal Golf Course and club house in Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming. The facility is still in service today and operates under the name Douglas Community Club.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Dyker Beach Golf Course – Brooklyn NY

The Dyker Beach Golf Course first opened in 1897. It was redesigned by Jon Van Kleek in 1935-1936. On May 7, 1936, the Department of Parks announced that the Dyker Beach Golf Course had been “thoroughly reconstructed with new tees… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Civil Works Administration (CWA), Temporary Emergency Relief Act (TERA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

East Potomac Park – Washington DC

“East Potomac Park is located on a constructed peninsula bounded by the Potomac River, Tidal Basin, and the Washington Channel. CCC work at the park included an upgraded golf course, and the construction of twelve tennis courts surrounded by a… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation, Tennis Courts
New Deal Agencies: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Eastmoreland Public Golf Course Improvements – Portland OR

Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers provided landscaping improvements to the Eastmoreland Golf Course, the City of Portland’s oldest municipal course, during 1937. The $26,348 project budget was made up almost entirely of labor costs. As a Parks Bureau report notes,… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

El Monte Clubhouse – Ogden UT

The historic El Monte Clubhouse in Ogden, Utah was constructed as part of a New Deal project by Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). These agencies preced the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to which the building… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Civil Works Administration (CWA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Fairchild Wheeler Golf Course – Fairfield CT

FERA started and the WPA completed the construction of these two 18-hole golf courses between 1933 and 1940.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Flatirons Golf Course – Boulder CO

From the Flatirons Golf Course website: “Flatirons Golf Course has a long and illustrious history as Boulder’s premier golf club. Architect William H. Tucker was commissioned by the members of the Boulder Country Club, located at 28th and Iris, to… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Florida Caverns Golf Course – Marianna FL

The Florida Caverns Golf Course is located on the grounds of the Florida Caverns State Park near the city of Marianna in Jackson County. In February 1938, State Forester and Park Executive Harry Lee Baker brought in golf course architect… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Forest Dale Golf Course Clubhouse – Salt Lake City UT

Salt Lake City acquired the Forest Dale golf course, formerly the Salt Lake City Country Club, in 1935. The inclusion of the above photograph in the National Archives WPA records suggests that the WPA conducted work on the clubhouse depicted in the… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Information Needed, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Forest Park – St. Louis MO

Forest Park is one of the largest municipal parks in the nation, just larger than Central Park in NYC. It was the site of the 1904 Worlds Fair and the WPA projects in the park transformed it and brought it… read more

Project type: Athletic Courts and Fields, Comfort Stations (Restrooms), Golf Courses, Parks and recreation, Paths and Trails, Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Tennis Courts, Water supply
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Forest Park Golf Course – Baltimore MD

In 1936, WPA crews expanded the Forest Park Golf Course from 9 holes to 18 holes.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Forest Park Golf Course Improvements – Woodhaven NY

On July 16, 1935, the Department of Parks announced that the Forest Park Golf Course in Queens had been “entirely rebuilt with new greens and tees in line with the most modern golf architecture.” A later press release confirmed that… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Civil Works Administration (CWA), Temporary Emergency Relief Act (TERA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park Golf Course – Philadelphia PA

The FDR Park Golf Course was constructed as a WPA project in 1936.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Fresh Pond Golf Course Beautification – Cambridge MA

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

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

George Wright Clubhouse – Hyde Park MA

The George Wright Clubhouse is a facility part of a municipal golf course located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, MA. The course was designed by Donald Ross and named for George Wright, one of the original members of the… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Civil Works Administration (CWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

George Wright Golf Course – Hyde Park MA

“George Wright Golf Course is a Donald Ross designed, public golf course in Hyde Park, Massachusetts that was opened in 1938 after receiving President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding to complete the construction.”

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Blackduck MN

In 1936 the WPA helped construct this golf course in Blackduck.  

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Canton GA

From Marguerite Cline in the Cherokee Tribune: “Construction of the current Canton Golf Course was a part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal. It was built by the WPA – Works Progress Administration program. Critics joked about the program… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Elizabethton TN

From the Elizabethton Golf Course website: “In late 1935 a group of Elizabethton business men made plans to buy and develop some local property into a golf course. They retained Raymond Campbell, Attorney and charter member of the group, to… read more

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Forsyth GA

The WPA helped build Forstyth Golf Course in 1935.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Hancock NY

The WPA constructed the Town of Hancock Golf Course in Hancock, New York in 1941.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Mahnomen MN

The construction of Mahnomen Golf Course east of the town of Mahnomen was a WPA project from 1935 to 1936. The course is now part of Mahnomen County Country Club.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Golf Course – Monroe NC

Between 1935 and 1939, the WPA constructed the first nine holes of this golf course.

Project type: Golf Courses, Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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