Start Year: 1937

Rose City Golf Course, constructed adjacent to a middle-class residential development in 1923, was the second public golf course in Portland and the state of Oregon. In 1937, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) redesigned the first nine-holes, rebuilding the greens and lengthening the course by 450 yards, and added rock walls and stone curbs along 72nd Drive.  Local basalt rock served as the landscaping material, as was the case in many WPA projects. City of Portland records indicate that approximately $38,000 was spent by the WPA on the Rose City Golf Course landscaping and redesign. WPA funding for these improvements was...

Bayonne's massive Port Terminal—later the Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne—was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. While plans for the development were made in the early 1930s, construction occurred between 1937 and 1938. The PWA supplied a $2,430,000 loan and $1,785,682 grant for the project, whose total cost was $4 million. PWA Docket No. NJ 159.

The interior of the Allentown post office is a ten-panel series of murals produced in 1937-1938 by New York artist Gifford Reynolds Beal (1879-1956). Each deals with a theme from Allentown history. The murals are respectively titled: Cement Industry Departure of the Jordan Rifles Iron Industry in Lehigh Valley Kimmett's Lock Lehigh County Barn Signs Liberty Bell Pennsylvania-German Riflemen The Walking Purchase Transportation Trout Hall

The monumental Moderne-style Robert N. C. Nix Federal Building, sometimes known as the William Penn Annex, was constructed under the auspices of the federal Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1937 and 1941. Its exterior features multiple examples of New Deal artwork. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. However, according to Mary Manfredi, the building is not listed on the Philadelphia Register and "it is not legally protected from alterations or demolition."    

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) managed an adult education program in Rochester, New Hampshire during the Great Depression. The program replaced a similar one that had been locally organized and funded. A somewhat disdainful attitude toward federal assistance is typified by this addition to the school report by the City of Rochester School Board. "ADULT EDUCATION Contrary to our plans of last year we have again organized adult classes under W. P. A. The work is devoted wholly to preparation for citizenship to meet the needs of about seventy residents of this city. Both afternoon and evening classes have been organized to serve...

The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC, by some of the finest American artists of the time.  John Steuart Curry painted “The Rush for the Oklahoma Land – 1889” (not 1894 as it says in the bronze plaque) and "The Homesteading and the Building of Barbed Wire Fences" in 1937-39. They were commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and painted to honor the General Land Office and Grazing Service, precursors to today's Bureau of Land Management, and hang on the 5th floor main corridor,...

The historic post office building in Thomaston, Connecticut was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds and opened in 1938. The building, which houses a New Deal mural in its lobby, is still in active use.

The Montopolis Bridge is a historic Parker through truss bridge across the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. On June 15, 1935, the City of Austin suffered a devastating flood along the Colorado River. The original Montopolis bridge, built by Travis County in the late 1880s, was one of five bridges washed away by the flood. The Texas Highway Department designed the current bridge and requested federal emergency relief funds from the Bureau of Public Roads to rebuild it. Work on the bridge began on February 15, 1937. The bridge was completed on February 11, 1938 by Vincennes Steel Corporation under contract...

WPA Job Card: WPA Project No. 65-3-4804, Approval Date 2-18-36, $7,711, "Sacramento River By-pass. Levee reconstruction. Move levees running across by-pass, the dirt to be scraped into the paralleling ditch from which it originated." (Reclamation Bd.) "WPA Project No. 6654, Yolo County, commenced operations on April 2nd since which time an average of 31 men have been employed on clearing brush and timber from levees of the Sacramento By-pass and poisoning squirrels."  

"An average of 118 men on WPA Project No. 5416 were engaged during the month in clearing the overflow channel of the Feather River north of Marysville and near Nicolaus. SRA Transient Camp No. 7 in the Sutter Basin furnished an average of 48 men for work on the east levee of Sutter By-pass, at Pumping Plant No.1 and No.2 and at the Sutter maintenance headquarters. It was impossible to work, in the Tisdale By-pass during this period on account of overflow."