Frank H. Ball Park Swimming Pool and Community Building - Fresno CA

City:: Fresno, CA
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation, Civic Facilities, Community Centers, Swimming Pools
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Started:: 1939
Completed:: 1940
Quality of Information:: Moderate
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

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.

Source notes

Recreation Building Plaque New Deal Fresno Brochure Fresno Bee, 1939 in "Scrapbooks of clippings related to WPA projects in Fresno, Kern, King, Madera, and Tulare Counties," gift of Mrs. David T. Holmes, Vacaville, 1962. (Scrapbook can be found in the California State Library in Sacramento).