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  • Gillespie County Courthouse - Fredericksburg TX
    Built in the Moderne style, the Gillespie County Courthouse was completed in July 1939. There is a plaque just inside the front door that attributes the construction to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Construction began on the courthouse in September 1938 after an election in August approved the issuance of bonds for the project. The federal government would contribute $65,450 to the construction of the building; this represented approximately 45% of the cost of the building.
  • School Building (former) - Alco AR
    The one-story stone school was constructed in the Plain Traditional style in 1938 by the NYA. The construction of the school was an economic and education boost to Stone County, one of the most isolated of Arkansas counties, with the lowest population in the state. In 1992, it was converted to a private residence.
  • Oxford Elementary School (former) Improvements - Oxford MS
    PWA Docket Mississippi # 1219 DS approved additions and alterations to the Oxford Grammar/Elementary School. The school has since been demolished.
  • Bluemont Youth Cabin - Manhattan KS
    This stone structure in Goodnow Park was built with help from the NYA in 1938. "Situated in a wooded park setting distinguished by a series of native limestone retaining walls and steps that access the sloping site and cabin. Two-story cabin is of random-coursed limestone with a side-facing fable roof of wood shingles. There is a large stone chimney at the center of the east elevation."   (https://khri.kansasgis.org) The cabin was added to the National Register of Historic Places in January, 2014.
  • School Gymnasium (former) - Omaha TX
    An onsite marker erected in 1998 explains the history of this WPA rock structure: "Land was first purchased for a public school in Omaha in 1892 and a large wooden building near the railroad tracks soon housed three teachers and 165 students. The community formed an independent school district in 1905 and built a new two-story brick structure the following year. It was enlarged as necessary, including the addition of a rock gymnasium erected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1938 and 1940. After a tornado damaged the property in 1950, the school merged with nearby Naples at the urging...
  • Forney High School Building (former) - Forney TX
    "Forney's first schoolhouse was built here about 1868, and its first general store was built nearby by pioneer settler John C. McKellar in 1871. This building was erected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1938-39. Designed by WPA architect Hoke Smith, the Spanish Colonial revival style structure features a tile roof, multi-light windows, buff brick, and wrought iron and cast stone details. A high school was housed here until 1974 and a middle school until 1993." The school became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1994. The building is still standing.
  • City Hall (former) - Oxford MS
    "James T. Canizaro (1904-1982)... in 1938 designed a small modernist gem in the WPA-sponsored Oxford City Hall (p.107)...a structure that pushed even more courageously toward the brave new world of international modernism" (Hines, 1996, p.108). "Above two round modernist columns supporting the covered first floor entrance porch, the defining motif of the building was a long, thin band of contiguous ribbon windows, curving smartly at the corner in a quintessentially modernist gesture. To the right and on the axis of this key design element was an asymmetrically placed clock of chic modernist design" (Hines, p. 108). The structure was demolished in 1976.
  • Borger High School Stadium (former) Improvements - Borger TX
    In June 1938 the PWA approved an $8,181 grant toward the construction of Borger High School's football stadium. However, due to delays in obtaining the grant the stadium had been already built. "The school board undoubtedly will seek to keep the money to make improvements on the stadium and increase the seating capacity," the Borger Daily Herald stated. The stadium was then two blocks north of the high school. Presently, the school system's football facilities are located at Johnson Park.
  • Sewer System Improvements - Wheeler TX
    The Borger Daily Herald reported that in June 1938 the PWA approved a $43,363 grant and $53,000 in loans to Wheeler, Texas for the purpose of improving / constructing its sewer system.
  • Park School - Mill Valley CA
    Mill Valley's Park School was originally constructed in 1906. The PWA significantly expanded the school in 1939: “A school bond issue ($55,000) was passed in 1938, which permitted the securing of $45,000 already pledged by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The school board hired Walter C. Falch, who designed Mill Valley City Hall as the architect for the project. Peter Sartorio proposed the winning bid of $86,759 for the construction contract. The new V-shaped edifice, with an auditorium at its apex and wings extending back from both sides, was said to be one of the most up-to-date schools in the...
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