- City:
- Shell, WY
- Site Type:
- Community Centers, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA), possibly succeeded by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), built a community building east of Shell.
Cassity: In Shell, the CWA constructed a log “community house,” a building that was “equipped with a fine dance floor and the building will serve not only the people in the vicinity but will serve a large number from the entire county as this building is located [in the] recreational section of the Big Horn Mountains.”
The exact location and condition of this building are unknown to the Living New Deal.
Source notes
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 102).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed Jul. 18, 2022)
National Archives Record Group 69.3.1
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on April 10, 2018.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.
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