- City:
- Milwaukee, WI
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Zoos
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The WPA constructed new buildings and made improvements to existing zoo facilities. They built a new elephant house.
The zoo no longer exists at this location.
Source notes
Lois M. Quinn, Jobs for Workers on Relief in Milwaukee County, Employment and Training Institute, Division of Outreach and Continuing Education Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (February 1995).Site originally submitted by Erin TerBeek on October 5, 2012.
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