- City:
- Anderson, TX
- Site Type:
- Courthouses (State & Local), Civic Facilities, Parks and Recreation, Landscaping and Tree Planting
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) remodeled the Grimes County Courthouse in Anderson, Texas, in 1940. WPA crews installed a tile roof, cleaned and painted the building facade, installed tile floors, built outside stairs, plastered the interior walls, and landscaped the grounds.
Source notes
National Archives Records Group 69, Grimes County, Texas, digitized by the Historic Sites and Structures Program staff of Texas State Parks (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department): (https://www.flickr.com/photos/141324854@N04/26240047615/in/album-72157664477030914/), accessed April 20, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on April 22, 2018.
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