Start Year: 1940

A culvert/rock chute on Geyser Road (east of Cloverdale California, Sonoma County) - "WPA 1940" inscribed on head walls on both sides of road.

This Gleason TN post office was constructed by the Treasury in 1940.

Harvesting is a post office mural completed by Joseph Meert in 1940. The mural is located in the city of Spencer. The size of the mural is 14' x 5' and the medium is tempera and oil on canvas.

The historic post office building in Athens, Pennsylvania was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The Graham County Courthouse was constructed as a WPA project between 1940 and 1942. According to the National Register of Historic Places, it was designed by the Knoxville architecture firm of Barber and McMurry, and built with stone quarried from just two miles away.

The WPA constructed the clubhouse on this golf course circa 1940 to 1943.

The former Des Plaines post office and many other post offices, after having been commissioned by the WPA to create jobs, also lent their walls to the artists of the FAP, which commissioned around 1,200 murals and 300 sculptures for the public buildings. The citizens of Des Plaines and their post office got the work of James Michael Newell, born as James Erbin Newell in 1900 Carnegie, Pennsylvania2. Before his work in the FAP, Newell was a marine fighting in WW1 at the age of eighteen5. Afterwards, his colonel recommended him for a scholarship to study abroad in Paris, where he...

The historic post office in Blackstone, Virginia was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940-1. The building is still in service.

This WPA armory was constructed in 1940-1941. "The significance of the Tulsa Armory stems from its date  of construction and its enormous size, among other things. Tulsa was not among those scheduled for an armory in 1936, in part because the WPA supported other projects and in part because Tulsa was strongly Republican in politics and armory selection was controlled by Democratic officials in Oklahoma City. The clear need for job opportunities for Tulsa's unemployed and the willingness of Tulsa County to lease land at no cost to the state as a site for the armory cleared the way for the...

Fort Loudon Dam is one of many New Deal dams built by the Tennessee Valley Authority: "In the mid-1930s, TVA drafted its "unified plan," a series of long-term goals that called for the construction of a series of dams along the Tennessee River to provide a minimum 9-foot (2.7 m) navigation channel along the entire length of the river, control flooding in the Tennessee Valley, and bring electricity to the area. The Fort Loudoun project was initially known as a the Coulter Shoals project, named for a site identified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 6 miles (9.7 km) upstream from the...