- City:
- Walnut Creek, CA
- Site Type:
- Community Centers, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) performed minor repair work at the old wooden Veterans Memorial Building in Walnut Creek, California.
“Dedicated in 1925, Walnut Creek’s Veterans Memorial Building served as a meeting place for local veterans and other organizations and frequently hosted dances in the second-floor ballroom. For a number of years, the building also doubled as a County courthouse. The building was razed in 2006, and local veterans have a new building in Lafayette.”
WPA Project No. 65-3-2793, App. Date 11/20/35, $302, “Cleaning interior woodwork and painting interior rooms, halls and floors of Memorial Building.”
WPA Project No. 65-3-2703, App. Date 2-3-36, $228, “Cleaning interior woodwork & painting interior rooms, halls & floors of the County Owned Memorial Bldg.”
Source notes
WPA Job Cards, Fresno Public Library, San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center.
Veterans Memorial Building: (https://walkwc.oncell.com/en/170-veterans-memorial-building-108470.html), accessed October 27, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on October 27, 2018.
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