- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Tennis Courts, Playgrounds
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Partially Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved San Francisco’s Potrero Hill Playground (the present Potrero Hill Recreation Center) in the late 1930s, when WPA relief workers built the children’s play area, tennis courts and a restroom (Healy, p. 66).
Both the playground and the tennis courts are still there, but have been completely redone in recent years. We did not find the restroom.
It is possible that the quonset hut-style Recreation Center Field House is a later New Deal project, but we do not have confirmation of that.
Source notes
Healy, Clyde E. San Francisco Improved: Report of Clyde E. Healy, Assistant City Engineer - City of San Francisco and Coordinator of W.P.A. Projects, Period October 10, 1935 to August 31, 1939. San Francisco., 1939.
Timothy Keegan. "W.P.A. Construction in San Francisco (1935-1942)." The Argonaut Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2003. online at: https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=W.P.A._Construction_in_San_Francisco_%281935-1942%29
Christopher ver Planck and Donna Graves, Draft San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement: Rebuilding the City, 1933-1943. For Historic Planning Commission, Department of City Planning, San Francisco CA. 2020. p. 95.
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on March 13, 2006.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $66,309.00 |
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