- City:
- Glenview, IL
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools, Bathhouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Construction on the pool started in 1938 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt`s Depression-era Works Progress Administration. The park district furnished the materials, and workers were bused in by the government. The pool, completed in 1940, is the last WPA pool still in use and in its original condition in all of Illinois. WPA construction included a stone bathhouse with fireplace and open-beamed ceiling. Renovations in 2005 to bring the pool into compliance with current building codes retained the historic character of both the pool and bathhouse.
Source notes
https://www.recmanagement.com/200709fp03.php https://www.beaquatics.com/gallery_pages/glenview04.htmlSite originally submitted by Jim Smetana on October 30, 2014.
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Ron Reisener
The 1940 period photo shows the entire Roosevelt Park with the pool, field house, baseball fields, shuffleball courts and tennis courts. What I have yet to find is a picture of Roosevelt Park that includes the original wooden toboggan slide. My brother and I know it was there because we went up and down it about a million times.