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  • Todd Grove Park Stone Wall - Ukiah CA
    Todd Grove Park is a 16-acre park located on Ukiah’s west side, adjacent to the Ukiah Valley Golf Course. Amenities include groves of mature trees, lawns, walking paths, children's playground, picnic areas, and a bandstand. In 1940, Works Projects Administration (WPA) relief crews built a low, native stone wall around the park’s perimeter. The wall is 2’ high and 15” thick, made of rough stone bonded with thick cement mortar. At approximately 25’ to 28’ intervals, the wall is interrupted by 33”-high, 17”x17”-wide stone posts. Concrete stamps denoting “WPA 1940” are placed at intervals on each wall. A stone gate at the...
  • Charles C. Glover Memorial (Massachusetts Ave) Bridge - Washington DC
    The Massachusetts Avenue bridge was built in 1940-1941 by the Army Corps of Engineers with federal funds provided by Congress to the District of Columbia Commissioners.  It was a final step in the completion of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in the New Deal era.  The new bridge replace a low earth-fill causeway over the creek, built in 1901, and a tunnel under the causeway that impeded traffic on the new Rock Creek parkway.  Congress appropriated $360,000 for the bridge under the District of Columbia act of 1939.  Additional funding was added in 1941 to dynamite the old bridge and...
  • Wade Municipal Stadium - Duluth MN
    Duluth, Minnesota's Wade Municipal Stadium was constructed with federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) funds/labor between 1940 and 1941. The 4,200-seat stadium is still in use today.
  • Public Market - Weatherford TX
    This public market structure was built with Works Progress Administration funds in order to relieve traffic congestion around the courthouse square where the farmer's market had been held. "The new market is entirely fireproof, constructed of heavy pipe welded in position with corrugated metal roof and tile stucco front...floor is concrete, the building is open on all sides, and roll awnings give sun protection" (Weatherford builds a $13,000 public market place, 1940, p. 7).  
  • Cherokee County Courthouse - Rusk TX
    Cherokee County completed its current courthouse in 1941 with the assistance of the Works Progress Administration. The courthouse is a three-story center block on basement with two-story wings on either side. The Moderne style structure, designed by the firm of Gill & Bennett, is built of native red and white limestone and features Art Deco details.
  • New Bedford Regional Airport - New Bedford MA
    The Works Progress Administration had an active presence in New Bedford, providing funds for massive construction and city improvement efforts. Suggestions for an airfield near New Bedford first appear in documents from 1936, proposing a route “via Fall River and New Bedford to some centrally located point on Cape Cod. This route would be used mainly for summer traffic.” However, formal discussions do not appear until March of 1939, where it was proposed as a Works Project Administration project. Work on the New Bedford airfields officially began on April 9, 1940. It was dedicated a little over two years later,...
  • Post Office Mural - Elgin TX
    Painted by Texas artist Julius Woeltz, the Section of Fine Arts mural "Texas Farm" was produced in 1940. Woeltz was born in San Antonio, studied in Chicago as well as in France and Mexico, and was the head of the Department of Art at the Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas after serving in the US military during the Second World War. New Deal funding was behind the production of a number of other public art works by Woeltz, including the murals in the Amarillo Federal Building and Post Office and the Benton, AR Post Office.
  • Forestry Work - Haverhill NH
    In 1940, the Works Progress Administration provided funds to support forestry work in Haverhill, NH. Their work contributed to control of White Pine Blister Rust and provided employment for 25 local workers. "WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST CONTROL W. P. A. WORK W. P. A. funds expended $2,609.11 Area covered 993 acres Currant & gooseberry bushes destroyed 33,652 Number of local men employed 25"
  • Municipal Improvements - Dunbarton NH
    In 1940 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration supported a variety of municipal improvements in Dunbarton NH. Annual town reports note the following projects and costs: 1940 W.P.A. sponsors' share, road project $788.60 W.P.A. sponsors' share, map project $39.65 1941 W.P.A. sponsors' share, road project $2,083.26 W.P.A. sponsors' share, map project $1,245.50
  • Post Office - Hamilton MT
    The historic post office in Hamilton, Montana was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in the amount of $100,000.  Construction began in 1940 and was completed in 1941.   The style of the building is standard design for post offices at the time, a sort of cross between Federalist and Moderne, with flat roof and white trim around windows and the front entrance. We doubt is that the architectural plan came from the Public Works Administration, as stated on the historic marker in front; the Treasury Department's Procurement Division had its own team of architects, led by Louis Simon. A New Deal...
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