Start Year: 1938

Several city street paving projects in Lubbock were financed by the WPA. Curb markers testify to this history, including this one found at 22nd and Gary Streets, in Lubbock. Another is at Flint and 19th Streets.

Farnsworth Park is a 15-acre Los Angeles County park in Altadena, CA, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, created with the help of the New Deal. A wood-bench amphitheater added  the park in 1938  on the slope behind the Recreation Building (now the William D. Davies Memorial Building) by the relief workers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).  It is still in use.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) dramatically increased the size and capacity of Lake Lawtonka, as part of a project that included raised the height of Lake Lawtonka Dam by ten feet. Primary construction occurred between March 1938 and July 1939. The lake, which provides water for Lawton, was increased from nine to 14.5 billion gallons of capacity, and the lake's surface area increased from 1,450 to 1,750 acres.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) raised the height of Lake Lawtonka Dam by ten feet between March 1938 and July 1939. It would take WPA workers additional time to clean up the site and construct "break-water structures at the boat landings." The substantial project cost about $535,000, of which $90,000 was provided by the city. (The WPA supplied the rest of the funding.) Upon completion of the project the dam measured 704 feet long, between 60 and 70 feet high, and ten feet wide at the top.

Tisbury School in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts received an auditorium / gymnasium addition as part of a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The PWA provided a grant of $20,250 for the project, whose total cost was $45,774. Construction began in Dec. 1938 and was completed Jun. 1939. (PWA Docket No. 1429) The addition was located in the northeast corner of the building, along Spring Street. Demolition of the structure took place in November 2022, as part of an "$82 million renovation and addition project."

The New Deal provided the funds to build the Talkeetna Vilkage school in 1936.  The Alaska Territory was managed by the Department of the Interior, which supported more schools for the territory. The money might well have come from a grant by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The school served grades 1-8 until the 1960s.  It now houses the Talkeetna Historical Society, which moved into the old school house in 1974 and has the records of its construction. 

The 1,300 foot long, grass landing strip in old Talkeetna Village was built by the civil aeronautics board (CAB) in 1938. As the use small planes became the primary means of transportation across Alaska, the federal government paid for many small airfields in the 1930s and 1940s. The landing strip is grass and is situated a stone’s throw from Main Street. Surprisingly, it is still in use even though a new state airfield has been built a few miles away. The Talkeetna Historical Society has posted an informational panel nearby that credits president Franklin D. Roosevelt with an executive order granting federal...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did extensive work at Denali National Park for two summers in 1938 and 1939.   At that time, the park was smaller and called Mount McKinley National Park. As at other national parks, the Civilian Conservation Corps had an important role in the development of park infrastructure, administrative and recreation facilities. CCC enrollees lived in a main camp (NP-1) near the site of the present main visitors center at the east entrance to the park. They worked under the direction of the National Park Service, In 1938 the CCC enrollees constructed "...two employee residential buildings, now known...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) completed work at the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge (also called Back Bay Migratory Waterfowl Refuge). The work was completed at this site by the CCC unit that resided at the nearby, but completely inland, Camp Pungo in what is now Virginia Beach. The original work extended from the Life-Saving/Coast Guard Station at Dam Neck, Virginia to the border with North Carolina well beyond its purchased property. Its most significant creation was the efforts to create a primary dune along the coast of Virginia to fashion an environment to protect wildfowl. Few original structures are remaining of...

This monumental building was constructed in 1939 for  offices of the Berwyn Township’s Public Health District.  It was funded in part by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (i.e., the PWA). It was designed by Berwyn resident Vladimir Novak and is listed on National Register of Historic Places.