- City:
- Fargo, ND
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Auditoriums and Arenas
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The old Fargo Arena was a short-lived recreation facility. Located at Island Park, it has been largely dismantled, though its shell remains. The facility was constructed in the northwest corner of the park, near the park’s present-day pool. A 1939 WPA plaque is visible on the old shell today.
“The arena was a W.P.A. project built in 193[8-9]. The original structure was dismantled and reassembled at Hector Airport in December 1943, where it served as an airplane hanger. The concrete front of the building was preserved at the original location.”
Source notes
https://digitalhorizonsonline.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/uw/id/5207 https://digitalhorizonsonline.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/uw-ndshs/id/2206 https://mercurytheatre.areavoices.com/2014/01/27/the-original-fargodome/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 23, 2015.
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Carolyn M Boutain
The pictures on this page represent the front of an arena built by the WPA project.
There is another structure at Island Park built by the WPA that was the site of the original pool. This is not the original pool site.