- City:
- Prescott, AZ
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Museums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1933-34, relief workers of the Civil Works Administration (CWA) built the Sharlot Hall Museum building. They also restored a rustic ranch house on the site and helped move and restore Fort Misery cabin, moved here from its original site.
Sharlot Hall museum complex occupies a square block on the west side of downtown Prescott and includes several buildings and an archive in the city library across the street. It was begun in 1928 by local historian, politician, and activist Sharlot Hall, whose founding act was to save the historic Governor’s Mansion. The New Deal then came in to help build a new museum building and other structures.
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharlot_Hall_Museum
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Work Projects Administration, Information Service, Primary File, 1936-42, Box 15, Folder 290-A.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 3, 2014.
Additional contributions by Hans Johnson, Richard Walker.
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