Project type: Parks and recreation, Bathhouses
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Description
“Phoenix has no shortage of [New Deal] projects. The city’s park system is a major benefactor, with huge undertakings in places like South Mountain Park and Encanto Park and smaller projects, such as a bathhouse in Coronado Park…South Mountain Park near Central Avenue and Baseline Road was home to a CCC camp that employed 4,000 young men between 1933 and 1940. They built lookout points, ramadas, trails and bathrooms that are historical and architectural gems today.”
Source notes
Susie Steckner, "75 Years and Counting," Phoenix Magazine, Nov. 2010, Pg. 52.
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