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  • Fort Washington Park - Fort Washington MD
    Fort Washington was built to defend the river access to Washington D.C. in the early 19th century. In the 1930s, both the WPA and the CCC made general improvements to the Fort and surrounding park. The WPA made "general improvements to building and facilities at Fort Washington…including rehabilitating school, barracks, kitchens, latrines, gymnasium, and officers' club, including facilities, replacing sanitary sewers, altering and enlarging target facilities, improving roads by widening, straightening, resurfacing, and constructing curbs and gutters." (National Archives) A HABS Survey describes CCC activity at the Fort: “CCC work occurred during two periods at Fort Washington, first by Camp NP-6-VA (Fort Hunt),...
  • Fort Wilkins - Copper Harbor MI
    Established in 1844 to protect the government's interests in the region's "Copper Boom," Fort Wilkinson was permanently abandoned by the U.S. Army in 1870 and became a state park in 1923. Beginning in 1938, renovation of the park began under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The improvements "included a 200 car parking area, upgraded campsites, water and sewer systems, a park store and campground shower building," as well as historic preservation work that today instruct visitors about conditions on the mid-19th-century frontier. (fortwilkinsha.org.)
  • Fort Worth Botanic Garden - Fort Worth TX
    The Fort Worth Botanic Garden had its origins in 1912 when the park board purchased a tract of land southwest of Trinity Park and named it Rock Springs Park. In his 1909 park master plan for Fort Worth, landscape architect George E. Kessler recommended that the city acquire the parcel because of its natural flowing springs and dense stand of native trees. The park remained largely unimproved until 1929 when work began on the creation of a lagoon and an arboretum under the direction of landscape architect S. Herbert Hare and Raymond C. Morrison, the city’s forester. In 1930 Hare and...
  • Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge - Fort Worth TX
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is primarily responsible for building the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge (FWNC&R) which is located just inside the city limits of Fort Worth, TX. CCC Company 1816, Lake Worth Camp SP-31-T served in this area from 1934-1938. It's projects planned and supervised by the National Park Service included roads, bridges, bridle paths, nature trails, picnic areas and stone shelter houses.
  • Fort Worth Zoo Improvements - Fort Worth TX
    The Works Progress Administratio built several cages and exhibits at the Fort Worth city zoo.
  • Fortsville Fish Hatchery - Moreau NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted work on the fish hatchery shown in the WPA photo above. The caption notes the location of this hatchery as being in Fortsville, New York. Fortsville is a hamlet located in the town of Moreau in Saratoga County. The Living New Deal does not know the current status or location of this project.  
  • Foster Park - Chicago IL
    "In 1934, the Great Depression necessitated the consolidation of the city's 22 individual park commissions. The newly-formed Chicago Park District improved Foster Park's landscape and constructed a small recreation building there."
  • Foster Park - San Angelo TX
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) put more than 100 men to work developing Foster Park on Spring Creek southwest of San Angelo. The 10-acre park received $11,000 in improvements made possible by the CWA. In Feb. 1934 the San Angelo Morning Times noted that work was being "completed rapidly." It is probable that the CWA constructed many of the stone facilities that still serve the park today, including picnic benches, fireplaces, and a sizable shelter.
  • Foster Park Pavilion # 3 - Fort Wayne IN
    Park Rustic-style pavilion constructed by the WPA in 1938. Rectangular in plan, the building is constructed of rustic stone with chamfered timber beams and has the form of an open pavilion with enclosed ends. The roof is covered with wood shingles and is hipped on the north end, while the south end has a parapetted gable with a massive stone chimney. There were two outdoor fire places on the south and one on the interior that have been infilled with stone. Flooring is stone and concrete. A former kitchen is located at the north end with two arched windows and a door....
  • Fountain of the Pioneers (removed) - Kalamazoo MI
    Kalamazoo's Bronson Park featured an Art Deco-style fountain built with help from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The fountain was located toward the east side of the park. Kalamazoo Business and Professional Women's Club held a competition, awarding the first place $250 prize to Marcelline Gougler, University of Illinois art instructor who had studied under well-known sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, designer of Pavilions at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Center of Progress and student of Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore sculptor. Iannelli was brought in to provide engineering and later Gougler, ceded the project to him. The fountain depicts a westward facing settler standing...
  • Fountain Park - Allentown PA
    Mcall.com article: Union Terrace, Jordan Park, Fountain Park and the Lehigh Parkway in Allentown and Saucon Park, Monocacy Park and Franklin Park at Sand Island in Bethlehem were built under WPA and its precursor ...   "Probably it would have taken 50 years of slow progress to accomplish what has been done under WPA in two years," Robert J. Wheeler, then-secretary to the Allentown Planning Commission, told The Morning Call in 1937.
  • Fowler Swimming Pool and Bathhouse - Fowler KS
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Fowler Swimming Pool and Bathhouse in Fowler KS. Fowler was apparently hard hit by the dust storms of the 1930s, and the construction of a swimming pool would bring not only construction jobs but welcome relief from dirt and heat. Cost in 1936-1937 was $13,000, of which the town paid $3000. The pool's dedication ceremony on July 30, 1937 drew 1,000 people. The project was approved in may 1935, but construction was delayed and began in March 1936 and was completed in November 1936. According to the Kansas Historical Society, "Among 40 Kansas pools improved or...
  • Fox State Forest - Hillsboro NH
    According to a 1935 report of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission, the New Deal assisted in the initial development of the Caroline A. Fox Research and Demonstration Forest (Fox Forest) which has been the State of New Hampshire’s forest research station since 1933. The forest was a gift to New Hampshire from Miss Caroline Fox of Arlington, Massachusetts. Miss Fox spent her summers on the property and had an interest in forest management issues. Presently the forest contains 1,445 acres, the Henry I. Baldwin Forestry Education Center and a farm house/office. Fox Forest Research Research has been focused in two...
  • Framingham Centre Commons Improvements - Framingham MA
    In 1934 F.E.R.A. labor undertook "painting and repairing flagpoles and benches on the Framingham and Framingham Centre Commons."
  • Framingham Commons Improvements - Framingham MA
    In 1934 F.E.R.A. labor undertook "painting and repairing flagpoles and benches on the Framingham and Framingham Centre Commons."
  • Frances Albrier-San Pablo Park Improvements - Berkeley CA
    The WPA spread a new loam surface, painted bleachers, and installed playground lights, in addition to improving other playground conditions.
  • Frances Slocum State Forest Picnic Area Shelter House - Peru IN
    Stone and concrete foundation, stone and timber walls, hipped roof, and asphalt shingles. Constructed in 1939 by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Co. 589 (encamped at Salamonie River State Forest) on bluff alone Mississinewa River – now overlooking Mississinewa Reservoir (constructed by Army Corps in 1960s).
  • Francis G. Fitzpatrick Park Improvements - Bayonne NJ
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a project that involved "resurfacing, grading, and seeding uplands on 27th St. park." Francis G. Fitzpatrick Park is still in use today; modern facilities include: "spray park, walking path, playground and benches."
  • Francis Lewis Park - Flushing NY
    Francis Lewis Park sits at the base of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge in Queens. The park was named after an American "merchant, patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence"(nycgovparks). Researcher Frank Da Cruz has compiled evidence of the WPA's key role in developing this park: Like Ferry Point park, Francis Lewis Park was part of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge construction project, 1937-41. A New York Parks City Department press release on April 25, 1940, confirms that it was built by the WPA: The Department of Parks announces that exercises in connection with the dedication of Francis Lewis Park, Third Avenue and 147...
  • Francis Marion Smith Recreation Center Renovation - Oakland CA
    In 1942, the Oakland Recreation Department dedicated the newly renovated Recreation House at Park Boulevard and Newton Street – now the Recreation Center at Francis Marion Smith Park – which was completely remodeled with the help of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) (under the Federal Works Administration). The brick structure contains a large, open hall in Craftsman style and a kitchen on the first floor; there are play and club rooms in the basement (Oakland Tribune 1942).  It had previously been known as the Park Boulevard Clubhouse, a popular site for weddings, meetings, lectures and entertainments.   It remains in good condition. A...
  • Francis Park - St. Louis MO
    The land on which St. Louis Hills was developed was owned by David Francis, former governor of Missouri and ambassador to Russia in 1916. He donated 60 acres of land for the park in 1917. It was developed as a WPA project with tennis courts, buildings, walkways, ball fields, lily pond, handball and racquetball courts, and bridges. Originally, land owned by David Francis was considered as the site for the St. Louis World’s fair of 1904, but Forest Park was the site chosen.
  • Francis Recreation Center (former) Improvements - Washington DC
    In 1942, the Washington Post reported the allocation of $32,650 to the Federal Works Agency (FWA) for new construction and improvements to the Francis Recreation Center, located at 25th and H streets NW.   The Francis Recreation Center appears to have been wiped out by the construction of I-66 after World War II.
  • Frank D. O’Connor Playground - Queens NY
    Today's NYC Parks website explains that the "history of the playground begins in 1935, when the Board of Transportation permitted the Department of Parks to use two parcels on the east and west sides of 78th Street for recreational purposes. The property was developed by the Works Progress Administration in 1937 as a neighborhood playground and sitting park." In fact, work on the park started a bit earlier than that. A Department of Parks press release from December 30, 1936 announced the opening in this park of a "new playground is equipped with swings, jungle gyms, sand tables, play houses...
  • Frank Frisch Field - Bronx NY
    "Mosholu Baseball Field on Webster Avenue between East 201st Street and Mosholu Parkway, July 2014. A May 21, 1935, Parks Department press release says (referring to this field by original name, and by its location): This field, recently reconstructed by relief workers assigned to the Park Department, is one of the finest baseball plants in the entire park system, with seating accommodations for 3500 plus 1000 park benches. The diamond has been constructed according to big league specifications... The same press release (which announces a game between Manhattan College and the Bronx Elks) goes on to say, “The Park Department band...
  • Frank H. Ball Park Swimming Pool and Community Building - Fresno CA
    A New Deal Fresno brochure lists the swimming pool at Frank H. Ball park as being built by the PWA. The playground also received $42,000 for an NYA project to give youth training in building trades. The recreation building plaque shows that it, too, was an NYA project.
  • Frank Newhall Look Memorial Park - Florence MA
    Frank Newhall Look Memorial Park was constructed between the years 1928 and 1930, as the result of a large one hundred and fifty acre land grant from Mrs. Fannie Burr Look who was the wife of the late Frank Newhall Look. At the time of construction Mrs. Look provided the land and the money needed to develop the land, and she established a trust fund so that the park could be kept up and maintained for future generations to enjoy. The original park contained a variety of paths, ponds, streams, gardens, and sitting areas to enjoy nature. There were also...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Park - Egg Harbor City NJ
    "According to the American Guide Series, ...on Green Bank Rd., a macadamized highway, to Franklin D. Roosevelt Park, 3 m. (athletic fields, playgrounds, bathing beach). Much of the work on the 5.00-acre municipally owned park has been done by the WPA. --- New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past By Federal Writers' Project, 1939, page 602 "
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park - Los Angeles CA
    One of the oldest parks in Los Angeles County, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park was a product of WPA efforts. Located in the unincorporated "census-designated" community of Florence-Graham, CA in southern Los Angeles County, the park continues to serve as a vital center of community life, with basketball courts, children's play areas, a community room, a computer center, a fitness zone, a gymnasium, picnic shelters, a senior center, a soccer field, a swimming pool, a skateboard park and tennis courts.
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park Golf Course - Philadelphia PA
    The FDR Park Golf Course was constructed as a WPA project in 1936.
  • Franklin High School Athletic Field - Portland OR
    In 1939 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed an athletic field at Portland's Franklin High School as part of a larger commitment ($468,459) to the improvement of Portland public school properties.
  • Franklin Lake Campground - Eagle River WI
    "In 1936, CCC and WPA workers gathered on a scruffy piece of logged off timberland to build the Franklin Lake Campground... CCC enrollees from Camp Ninemile in Vilas County worked with the National Park Service to create landscape, trails, roads, and campsites, while WPA workers from the Warvet camp in Vilas County constructed buildings. The campground includes 42 campsites, a picnic area, swimming beach, and ten buildings. The plan adopted Rustic style aesthetics blending manmade elements, such as trails and buildings, into the natural lakeside setting. The buildings' Rustic logs, stones, open porches, wide overhangs, and exposed rafters reflect the beauty...
  • Franklin Park Renovation - Washington DC
    Franklin Park, also known as Franklin Square, was overhauled c. 1935-36.  Work on the park was part of a larger Capital Parks improvement program in the 1930s, funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA), assisted by the Civil Work Adminstration (CWA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). "By the 1930’s Franklin Park was considered one of the city’s most rundown reservations. Its walks were greatly deteriorated, its lawns overgrown, and its trees unpruned and deteriorating. In spring 1935, planning for the complete rehabilitation of Franklin Park began with the award of a $75,000 grant from the Public...
  • Franklin Park Zoo Improvements - Boston MA
    The Works Progress Administration made improvements to the Franklin Park Zoo. This project sought to improve the lion house, monkey house, and build machine and carpenter shop and garage extensions and a storage building. The total cost of the proposed project was $137,050.14 of which $94,349.50 would be provided by federal funding. This would account for the cost of materials and labor. This federal project was controversial and ended in litigation. The federal government sued the city of Boston for $4787.65 due to diversion of WPA of wages, although there were claims totaling nearly $11,000.
  • Fraser Field - Lynn MA
    "Fraser Field is a baseball park in Lynn, Massachusetts that was built in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal." (Wikipedia)
  • Fred Samuel Playground - New York NY
    The Department of Parks announced the opening of what is now the Fred Samuel Playground on March 31, 1939. The press release explained: "The area located on the west side of Lenox Avenue between 139 and 140 Streets is adjacent to Public School 139, Manhattan and was the first parcel of ground purchased jointly by the Park Department and the Board of Education and developed in collaboration to the advantage of both departments. Besides being completely equipped with play apparatus the area also provides facilities for handball, basketball, paddle tennis, roller skating hockey and ice skating in the winter when subfreezing...
  • Frederick B. Judge Playground - South Ozone Park NY
    NYC Parks describes the origins of this playground: "South Ozone Park grew into a bustling community, and the neighborhood’s many residents needed recreation space. Parks acquired the playground land in a purchase from William Zagarino in 1936, and soon after developed the area into a play space." Indeed, on April 3, 1937, the Department of Parks announced the completion of this new playground: "It has been equipped with swings, see-saws, slides, sand tables, play-houses and a wading pool for small children. Handball, shuffleboard and table tennis courts, a large play area with a soft ball diamond and an oval roller skating...
  • Frederick Johnson Park - New York NY
    The Department of Parks announced the opening of what is now the Frederick Johnson Park on March 31, 1939. The press release explained: "The 150 Street and Seventh Avenue area obtained by the Department of Parks from the Board of Transportation for an indefinite period has been developed to include 8 tennis courts, 9 handball courts, a volley ball court as well as a sitting area for mothers and guardians of small children. The sitting area is surrounded by continuous rows of benches under shade trees with two separate sand pits for youngsters to play in. This area is adjacent to...
  • Frederick WPA Building - Frederick OK
    Frederick's Municipal Swimming Pool building was reportedly built by the WPA in 1935. “The Frederick WPA-built school," writes Marjorie Barton, "is an example of how proper maintenance can preserve WPA buildings.”
  • Freebody Park Improvements - Newport RI
    In Newport, Rhode Island "the WPA built sidewalks and most of the stone walls, grandstands, concession buildings and other facilities in Newport’s public parks. Vernon Park, Freebody Park and Cardines Field are the most visible examples." At Freebody Park, the extent of WPA work is unclear as the astounding stone perimeter wall bears a 1932 date stamp, which pre-dates the New Deal.
  • Freeman Park - Woodland CA
    The January 16, 1936 issue of the Woodland Daily Democrat "reported that WPA-funded landscaping was transforming the 'old city dump at the east end of Court Street' into a 'new park for the City' and that 'much interest is being shown in the proposed target range which will occupy part of the park'." Though the park no longer appears to contain a target range, if it ever did, there is still a very nice park with a pagoda, a playground, a band stand and several other amenities at this location.
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