Start Year: 1937

The historic post office in Paris, Missouri was constructed in 1937 with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office in Breckenridge, Minnesota was constructed in 1937 with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did much of the early development of Calaveras Big Trees State Park in the 1930s.  Perhaps the most notable of the CCC projects was construction of the Big Trees Recreation Hall, now known as the Jack Knight Hall (the name was changed in the 2000s to honor a former park ranger). The hall is a one-story wood building in National Park Rustic style, with a long, covered porch on the north side. Inside, it contains a single large hall with open beam ceiling, hand-hewn wood furnishings, hand-crafted hardware, and a giant stone fireplace in the center....

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the Superior Municipal Stadium, costing a total of $78,000. Construction started in 1937 and finished in 1938. Modeled after Yankee Stadium in New York City, the stadium housed the Superior Blues. As the first of its kind in the Twin Ports area, community members flocked to the stadium in droves to enjoy the national pastime of baseball. Superior mayor, Bryn Ostby, and a larger committee organized a dedication ceremony for the stadium on Wednesday, July 27th, 1938. Then-Senator F. Ryan Duffy delivered an address, and celebrations included a parade with local musical organizations. On August...

Three hundred and seventy-three men and women were employed at the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief center in Santa Monica, CA when it relocated from Twelfth St to the former Lorbeer laundry building on Main St in October 1937. It appears the structure that housed the relief center on Main St is still extant, but confirmation is needed. When the state refused to continue providing materials in early 1938, Los Angeles County suspended WPA sewing projects and discharged 5,000 women. Santa Monica proposed to take over, with the mayor claiming, “We will continue operation of the sewing room for Santa Monica...

The West Florida Electric Cooperative was founded in Graceville, Florida, in 1937 with a loan from the federal Rural Electrical Administration (REA). It was one of hundreds of successful coops aided by the New Deal to bring electricity to unserved rural areas. "West Florida Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. was formed on December 10, 1937 by 712 rural residents who banded together and borrowed $194,000 from REA to build the original 262 miles of power lines to serve the area. Actual day-to-day operation of the co-op began in 1939" (West Florida Electric). As of 2024, West Florida Electric is still serving rural Floridians.

The building was the city administration building, which included city hall, jail, and the fire department. In 1987, the building was remodeled and the adjacent library was enlarged significantly. That is the present configuration. PWA Project no: N.M. 1035-D.

Deer Isle Bridge, a.k.a. the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge, is a two-lane suspension bridge in Hancock County, Maine constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds between 1937 and 1939. The bridge connects Little Deer Isle with a point in the Town of Sedgwick. The bridge bears a 1939 Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works plaque. Short and Stanley-Brown: This toll bridge crosses Eggemoggin Reach and connects Deer Isle with the mainland. It is about 25 miles southeast of Belfast by road and about the same distance southwest of Ellsworth. It replaces a ferry communication which was antiquated and dangerous in stormy weather. The...

This Colonial Revival-style federal building, built in 1937-8, was originally the U.S. Post Office and Custom House. GSA: "The building is stylistically and programmatically related to other federal structures associated with the expansion of the U.S. Customs Service in northern Vermont following the improvement of highway links across the Canadian border in the 1930s." The building houses examples of New Deal artwork in the lobby.

The Bangor Daily News in 1937 reported on two success stories in Aroostook County by the Resettlement Administration. The Babbin family and Waldo Holmquist. The article puts the situation in context when it said that a million farmers were on the dole during that time and the practical belief by the New Deal expressed itself "more ideal and beneficial situation exists when the farmer is helped to help himself than by parceling out of direct relief. It was illustrated that a small loan, better land, and proper farming methods would place many of these distressed families on their feet permanently." "Two especial...