- City:
- Mobile, AL
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Tennis Courts, Swimming Pools, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration constructed Mobile’s Davis Avenue Community Center. The center opened in 1936 and it included facilities such as tennis courts and a pool. Today, the facility is known as the Davis Avenue Recreation Center. The center holds historical significance for the African American history in Mobile and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 27, 2011.
Source notes
Alabama Historical Commission, (https://web.archive.org/web/20111010132448/https://preserveala.org/pdfs/NR/PressReleases/DAVIS.AVE.REC.CENTER.MOBILE.pdf), accessed November 13, 2017.
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 14, 2017.
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