- City:
- Sonora, CA
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Auxiliary Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Sonora City Hall was built with a combination of PWA and bond funds and completed in 1939.
According to a Works Progress Administration job card:
WPA Project No. 165-3-8511 Approval amount $680 Approval date 10/2/36, Average employed 14, Total funds spent $975 “Demolish City Hall; salvage usable materials and do work incidental thereto in the City of Sonora, Tuolumne County. City owned property.”
WPA Project No. 65-3-4664, Approval Amount $14,148, approval date 2-8-36 “Reinforced concrete Municipal Building & Fire Department.”
Source notes
Lacey Peterson. The Union Democrat. January 30, 2009. https://www.uniondemocrat.com/2009013095778/News/Local-News/Federal-money-at-work
Building plaque
WPA Job Cards, Fresno Public Library San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on June 10, 2010.
Additional contributions by Andrew Laverdiere, July 2018.
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