Grimes County Courthouse Improvements – Anderson TX

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.

Location Info


100 S Main St.
Anderson, TX 77830
Grimes County

Coordinates: 30.488664, -95.986816

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