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  • Mendenhall Glacier Shelter - Juneau AK
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built many shelters and cabins in Alaska during the 1930s, including this one. The Mendenhall Glacier shelter is located at the intersection of the Trail of Time and the East Glacier Trail. The Forest Service visitor brochure for the Mendenhall Glacier notes that, "used by early visitors, this shelter is located next to the old footpath to the glacier, which includes part of the path you are hiking today. At that time, it was just a three minute walk to the toe of the glacier from here!" The shelter used to overlook the glacier, which has retreated up the valley...
  • Mendocino Woodlands Camp - Mendocino CA
    "The most interesting site though was the 700 acre Mendocino Woodlands State Park located in the Jackson State Forest about 8 miles east of Highway One. The site is long, narrow and steeply sloped. See map of camp 1 above. The first building encountered is the dining/recreation room. The kitchen has a high, beam ceiling with a skylight, and off that central space there are two dining areas each with its own stone fireplace. From the kitchen, double doors lead out onto stone steps and an outdoor eating area. This building and all of the others at the camp were built...
  • Meramec State Park - Sullivan MO
    Extensive work by the CCC is seen in this park close to the city of St. Louis.  It includes shelters, a stone pump house, stone observation tower,  entrance stone work, and assorted bridges, steps, and walls.  Adjacent to the park are the remains of the CCC company 2728 camp.  The camp and work lasted from 1933-1935. An on-site sign describes CCC work in the park as follows: "In 1933, Meramec State Park was among the first parks in Missouri to benefit from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, a government program created in response to the Great Depression. As part of that...
  • Merced County Fair - Merced CA
    "Improve Merced County Fairgrounds near Merced, in Merced County, by grading and leveling grounds, preparing and planting lawn, planting trees, repairing race track, and performing incidental and appurtenant work. In addition to projects specifically approved. County-owned property." WPA Project No.465-3-2-642, Approval Date May 23, 1938, $3,573, Average Employed 78, Total funds $3,673.
  • Mercer Park Improvements - Bayonne NJ
    The website for Hudson County, New Jersey writes that Mercer Park in Bayonne, N.J. "was named after General Hugh Mercer, a famous American Revolution figure known for his bravery at the Battle of Princeton. The Park’s development was made possible through Works Progress Administration (WPA) under the New Deal, which provided funds to employ local residents to work on the park."
  • Mercer Playground (demolished) Improvements - Seattle WA
    The former Mercer Playground at 2nd Avenue North and Harrison Street in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood was the site of several small WPA maintenance and improvement projects. In 1938, WPA workers painted the playground shelter house, as part of a city-wide initiative to repaint various park structures that had not received any paint maintenance since the start of the Depression due to budget cuts. The following year, workers regraded the playground's ballfield, installed a water and drainage system, and built a new handball court. A lighting system was also installed. Twenty years later, Mercer Playground, along with much of the surrounding...
  • Meridian Hill Park Completion - Washington DC
    Meridian Hill Park is a formal, landscaped park in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, with terraces, pools, balustrades and a large cascade in the Italian baroque style. It is, in many people's estimation, the jewel of the District parks system.   Land for the park was purchased in 1910 and construction began in 1912, but was never completed.  In 1935-36, the PWA stepped in to fund completion of the park by providing a grant of $145,000. A 1936 article in the Washington Daily News described the work being done: “Cascades completed and placed in operation. South terraces graded; top soiled and seeded; shrubs and...
  • Meridian State Park - Meridian TX
    Meridian State Park is located along the 98th meridian on the edge of a natural transition zone between prairie and hill country. The land was acquired from private owners between 1933 and 1935 and the 505.4-acre park opened to the public in 1935. The park is currently administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Meridian State Park was developed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 1827(V), comprised of World War I veterans. The CCC developed the park using local limestone and timber, primarily oak and cedar. The CCC built the entrance portal, roads, vehicle bridges, culverts, the concession building, which...
  • Meriwether Lewis National Monument - Hohenwald TN
    This monument marks the spot where the explorer Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis and Clark duo) died as he was traveling along what later became part of the Natchez Trace Parkway. The site had been marked as early as 1848. "In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration and CCC workers camped at the site built a cabin museum a few feet southwest of the Grinder's Stand site . While their original objective was to duplicate the design of Grinder's Stand, no reliable description could be located." (wikipedia)
  • Merritt Park - Chelsea MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor created Merritt Park in Chelsea, Mass.
  • Merrymount Park - Quincy MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) labor conducted the following work at Merrymount Park in Quincy. WPA Bulletin: All who have motored to the South Shore or Cape this summer have noted the WPA work on the Pfaffman Oval in Merrymount Park. Here a perfect football field and running track are being enclosed with a high brick wall. Reinforced concrete bleachers, dressing and storage rooms are being built. Below the field the city is gradually filling up a salt water marsh and will in a few years have reclaimed the entire area up to the curving South Shore Road.
  • Mesa Verde National Park - Mesa Verde CO
    Mesa Verde National Park was signed into existence by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. Its goal is "to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world." Occupying roughly 80 square miles in southwestern Colorado, the park features "numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancient Pueblo peoples, sometimes called the Anasazi. There are over 4,000 archaeological sites and over 600 cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people at the site." (Wikipedia) During the New Deal period, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive work throughout the park. "The contributions of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to the Historic Landmark were...
  • Meshomasic State Forest - Portland CT
    Meshomasic State Forest, the first such entity in all of New England, was improved and developed by the efforts of two C.C.C. camps: Camp Jenkins (C.C.C. Company #181), in operation from June 14, 1933 to Jan. 1, 1936; and Camp Buck (C.C.C. Company #1197), in operation from Sept. 13, 1935 to Jul. 22, 1941. Among the work accomplished was "pouring a cement foundation for a sawmill," "building a lumber shed, a creosoting plant, a brick charcoal kiln ...," "miles of trails," and construction of "Milford Road." Other accomplishments are linked to from this page.
  • Meshomasic State Forest Bath Houses - Portland CT
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) constructed bath houses on Great Hill Road at Meshomasic State Forest. The location and status of these facilities is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Mesker Park Shelter House - Evansville IN
    Center was expressed breezeway with wide openings on E and W side. Hewn wall plate forms lintel, surround and sill of 10" timber pegged together, breezeway openings have wood brackets. W of bldg, brick cove lime with firebrick inside, faux stone succo outside, large grill inside of iron bars, tall chimney in rear, pier holding up gable roof in front. Facility built on small leveled plain on hillside, on S and E side, there is a retaining wall of limestone cobbles on the hillside, this shelter house and oven appears to have been built by 2 "negro" Civilian Conservation Corps...
  • Mesker Park Zoo Foot Bridge - Evansville IN
    Concrete deck footbridge over a small ravine, abutments, two feet high on both sides with squars piers on each end, abutments built of brick faced with rock facestone, capped with limestone. Article in Evansville Courier 1/30/38 may refer to Works Progress Administration (WPA) building these in 1937. Additional work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
  • Mesker Park Zoo Retaining Wall - Evansville IN
    About 12" high on inside, top 2' regular finish. Stone wall on outside 4' high, on inside depending on topography can be as much as 12' high, wall used as fence from outside and to define outside boarder, also section used as retaining wall for dirt embankment for St. Joseph Ave, well is 2' high with small sharp stones embedded in top, built at locally, grained limestone sot with mortar, smooth finish side except for top 2' on the inside which is rough, St. Joseph and Buchanan where the wall turns 90 degree, there is a sq stone pier 5x5...
  • MetraPark Horse Barns - Billings MT
    "WPA crews also worked on projects on the grounds of what is now MetraPark. Three horse barns built by the WPA are still in use at the fairgrounds."
  • Metropolitan Park - Tucumcari NM
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) developed Tucumcari Metropolitan Park, a.k.a. Five Mile Park, in Tucumcari, New Mexico. "At one time Tucumcari Metropolitan Park had the largest outdoor pool in the entire state of New Mexico, a playground with lots of equipment, a fully landscaped drive through park with bridges, creeks, a pistol and rifle range, a skeet and trap shooting range, and off-road course, horseback riding and was home to the then annual Founder’s Day Picnics." NRHP nomination form: "Referred to as Metropolitan Park, the park became known as Five Mile Park in the 1950s. The completed project marked a five year process...
  • Metropolitan Park Bathhouse and Pool (former) - Tucumcari NM
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) developed the remarkable (former) bathhouse and pool facility at Tucumcari Metropolitan Park, a.k.a. Five Mile Park, in Tucumcari, New Mexico. The pool was advertised as the largest in the Southwest. NRHP nomination form: The bathhouse is a one-story building with a concrete foundation, brown stucco over adobe walls, and a flat asphalt roof. The L-plan building incorporates many of the Spanish-Pueblo Revival Style's defining details including a modest irregular massing of horizontal planes, slightly battered walls, exposed beams, or vigas, drainage ducts, or canales, a long portal supported by heavy wood posts with corbels, and lintels above paired...
  • Michigan State University: Band Shell (demolished) - East Lansing MI
    "Designed by O. J. Munson and funded by the WPA/ FAP and a gift from the Class of 1937, the Band Shell was located where Bessey Hall now stands (see map). As captured in this 1954 photograph of a performance of the Michigan State College Band, the open-air stage was frequently used for musical performances as well as commencement ceremonies and pep rallies."
  • Micke Grove Park - Maintenance and Improvements - Lodi CA
    Like Lodi Lake and other parks in Lodi, Micke Grove Park had cemented rock curbs and gutters built by the CWA 1934. Some have been replaced but many still exist. In addition, seventy men employed by the WPA built and installed: five concrete picnic benches, a new baseball diamond, a caretaker cottage, two comfort stations, a wading pool, a water system, five acres of lawns, six horseshoe courts, six softball courts, two double tennis courts, three bocce ball courts, four volleyball courts, and one mile of fencing. In the years since the 1930s, many of the original features of the park have been...
  • Middle Village Playground - Middle Village NY
    The NYC Parks website explains the provenance of this modest playground in Queens: "Between 1935 and 1938, Parks leased this property from the Gorbess Realty Corporation. In April 1938, the City of New York purchased one parcel of the property for $10,450. A month later, the city acquired the second parcel through condemnation, and Parks assumed jurisdiction over both areas." During the same period, the land was developed by Parks with New Deal support. First, in September 1935, Parks announced the opening of a playground with "two handball courts and the usual children's play facilities." In 1942, after the park had...
  • Middlesex Fells Reservation Development - Medford MA
    The Middlesex Fells Reservation spans multiple towns north of Boston. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Civil Works Administration (CWA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA) were each active in developing the area. Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission annual reports detail the work of the New Deal over time. 1934 report: "During the first eleven weeks of this year about 2,800 men were employed on Federal Civil Works Administration projects. Most of these men were employed in the Blue Hills and Middlesex Fells Reservations. A large amount of necessary work was accomplished in the various divisions, which consisted mainly of cutting and burning brush, removing dead and...
  • Middlesex Fells Reservation: Lawrence Woods Trails - Medford MA
    The Middlesex Fells Reservation spans multiple towns north of Boston. Here is a description of a couple of the projects undertaken by the W.P.A. in the park: "Middlesex Fells Reservation; four miles of bridle trails in the Lawrence Woods section of the reservation were reconstructed. The trails were widened and graded and new cross drains and culverts were installed where necessary. The work was started in 1936 and completed in 1937."
  • Middlesex Fells Reservation: Whip Hill Paths - Stoneham MA
    The W.P.A. conducted path development and improvement work in the Whip Hill portion of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, in Stoneham, Mass.
  • Middlesex Fells Reservation: Winchester Section Trails - Winchester MA
    Description of a W.P.A. project undertaken in 1938: "Middlesex Fells Reservation, Winchester Section; to widen, drain and grade three miles of bridle trails. The trails to be for equestrian, police patrol, fire control and maintenance use." The Winchester section is the far western portion of the park.
  • Middlesex Fells Reservation: Wright's Tower - Medford MA
    Wright's Tower is an observation tower constructed in 1937 under the direction of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It is located at the summit of Pine Hill within the Middlesex Fells Reservation. The Reservation is spread across several towns just north of Boston, MA with Wright's Tower being located in Medford, MA. Note that there was a major refurbishment of the tower in 2008.
  • Milby Park Development - Houston TX
    "The W.P.A. undertook construction of recreation buildings in Emancipation Park and Milby Park."
  • Milham Park Golf Course - Kalamazoo MI
    The second nine holes of the Milham Park Golf Course in Kalamazoo, Michigan, were constructed as a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. From the Milham Park website: "The course is considered to be one of the best-conditioned municipal courses anywhere, and regularly hosts city and county tournaments.  The first nine holes at were completed in 1931 and turned over to the KMGA for operation and maintenance. Robert Millar was the first golf professional at Milham Park.  The second nine holes were built as a WPA-assisted project and put into play in June, 1936." Built at the depth of the...
  • Mill Creek Park: Stitt Pavilion - Boardman OH
    Stitt Pavilion was constructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1938. Still in use.
  • Mill Creek Pool - Olathe KS
    Olathe's municipal website identifies a pool located at the site of the present Mill Creek Pool as a New Deal project: "A swimming pool was built under the Works Progress Administration in 1934. It was located in the City Park at Poplar and Woodland." However, as the WPA didn't come into being until 1935, it is probable that the New Deal organization in question was in fact a precursor agency: the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). More research into this question is needed. Furthermore, it is unclear to Living New Deal whether the original structure has been replaced.
  • Millar Park - University City MO
    Millar Park was landscaped by the WPA in 1937.
  • Miller Field - Winthrop MA
    W.P.A. Bulletin, 1937: "At the north end of the former swamp, WPA raised the level a half dozen feet and built William A. Miller Athletic Field in honor of one of Winthrop's sons killed in action in France during the world war. Clay from Winthrop Highlands and sand from Point Shirley formed a firm basis for Miller Field in the days of CWA and ERA when Howard Shattuck, superintendent of the Winthrop water department, doubled in brass, so to speak, and directed work relief activities without pay in addition to his regular job as water department superintendent."
  • Miller High School Athletic Field - Miller NE
    In 1939, an athletic field was added to the high school facilities. Funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the amount of $3,190.00, workers completed the construction of game fields, bleachers, drives and fences. Landscaping and tree plantings were also planned. Although largely finished, a new grant was sought in the fall of 1939 to finish the project.
  • Miller Park - Breckenridge TX
    The park, formerly City Park, was constructed, including clearing grounds, building bridges, sidewalks, tables, benches entrance, water and lights. An entrance was erected, croquet courts and other conveniences and attractions were built throughout the park. The creek was also walled. City park costs were $8,921 and employed 22 men initially, and a total of 32 men for six months. The work included cleaning and preparing the site and erecting culverts over the creek. Additional city park improvements were made for $4,273, hired 34 workers, and was financed by the Works Progress Administration in 1936. The park is still extant and...
  • Miller Park - Salt Lake City UT
    The WPA (and possibly CCC) conducted extensive work to create Miller Park from 1935 to 1936. From the Intermountain Antiquities Computer System (IMACS) report: Site 42SL000711 is Miller Park, a historic public park, with seven built features, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The features consist of a stone double staircase (F-01 ), a stone platform wall and culvert (F-02), a stone bridge (F-03), two stone benches and stairs (F-04, a stone bench and raised platform F-05), a metal bridge (F-06), and stone retaining walls (F-07). Two maintained walking trails run along the east and west sides of the park. The park...
  • Miller Valley Elementary School Grounds (former) - Prescott AZ
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) carried out improvements to the grounds at the Miller Valley Elementary School in Prescott AZ in 1936-1937.  From the WPA project card in the National Archives, it appears that these included a stone entrance to the school grounds. The school was closed in the 2010s, but the old WPA stone walls have survived at the corner of W. Iron Springs and Miller Valley Roads.
  • Mills-Norrie State Park - Staatsburg NY
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to develop what is now Mills-Norrie State Park during the 1930s.
  • Milne Stadium - Albuquerque NM
    Milne Stadium was a New Deal project built in 1939. -Aurelio Sanchez
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