- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Tennis Courts
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The CWA or the RFC (which early on in the New Deal directly hired temporary day labor) constructed a 12 court tennis complex in Griffith Park. Rubble wall construction typifies work done by the ND throughout the park.
Source notes
Griffith Park, A Centenial History - Michael EbertsSite originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on October 10, 2015.
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