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Howard No. 2 School, WP-50 was started Sept 25, 1935 and completed March 4, 1936. The project expended $2924.25 federal funds, $1100 sponsor funds. Workers included 20 laborers, 3 carpenters, 3 painters, 2 plasterers, a brickmason, timekeeper and superintendent. The project included the addition of three new rooms to the 1928 school, painting all outside windows, doors, sashes and exterior brickwork. Interior work included plastering, painting inside window stools and baseboards, flooring, and installation of radiators. Repairs to the cafeteria were made and the playgrounds were improved. The building is no longer extant, having burned in early 2000s.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded improvements at Howard Playground in Washington DC between 1936-1937. The work included the following improvements: "Demolished pool, filled and graded in preparation for installing wading pool.”

Built as an elementary school. When multiple rural districts merged to create Avoca Central School, part of the negotiated agreement required a new grade school in Howard. The Howard Grade School was built as part of the project whose main purpose was creating the central school. The Public Works Administration supported the overall project with a $99,000 grant. The former Howard School is now in private hands, and used for business purposes. The building is located on the west side of County Road 70, just south of the Southern Tier Expressway.

The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided $1,018,811 for a chemistry building at Howard University.  It was one of four buildings funded by PWA on the campus, including the Founders Library, built c. 1937-38. The chemistry building was built in brick Georgian style, with limestone trim. It was almost surely designed by Albert I. Cassell, an African American architect who did several of the buildings at Howard.  It still serves as the home of the Department of Chemistry.  

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Hubbard Park Lodge in Shorewood WI. the structure was built for use by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. WPA crews also graded the land, built pathways and a spring-fed pool and fountain.  The records indicate that two buildings in Hubbard Park in Shorewood, WI, were built by the WPA in 1936: Hubbard Park Lodge (originally called Scout Craft Cabin) and Shorewood River Club (originally called Hubbard Park Community Lodge). The two venues, at present, are under the same management. According to one history, "Hubbard Park saw a lull in activity until the 1930s when Shorewood secured...

In 1936, improvements were made to Humphreys Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, CA with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA). Contractor Peter P. Shelby remodeled a section of the school's main building and constructed a new two-story classroom building for $125,634. Designed by architects A. R. Walker and P. A. Eisen, both PWA Moderne structures are extant; the main building on Humphreys Ave features Art Deco detailing. Shelby made an additional $2,468 of unspecified improvements to campus. The reconstruction and renovation of Los Angeles schools damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake was the single largest PWA funded program...

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a storm drain on Huntington Dr and Berkshire Avenue in Los Angeles, CA in an effort to combat flood control. The WPA allocated $279,236 towards the project. Los Angeles County has long had a history of devastating flooding that put stress on infrastructure and the lives of many residents. In 1915, the county established the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD) and began working on small scale flood control projects. However, disasters persisted and on New Years eve of 1933 and New Years day of 1934, the Crescenta Valley experienced major flooding...

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a storm drain at the intersection of Huntington Dr. and Berkshire Ave. in Los Angeles, CA. It was one of the ten largest public works projects completed during that year in Los Angeles.

In 1938-1939, the Public Works Administration (PWA) contributed $302,727 towards the creation of the Huttonsville Prison Farm, a medium security correctional facility. Initial construction seems to have been completed in late 1939 or early 1940, with several subsequent expansions. New Deal funding for jails and prisons was often geared towards the relief of overcrowded, dangerous, inhumane, or unsanitary conditions; and this was true of the Huttonsville Prison Farm. It relieved overcrowding at Moundsville State Prison (located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia) and included modern drinking water and waste disposal facilities, as well as a "fully-equipped... Surgical Ward, Hospital Ward,...

Public Works Administration project 6279 for an electric plant at Seward was approved 6/20/1934 for a $96,000 loan and a $30,000 grant. Construction finally began 8/6/1937 and was completed 8/7/1939 for a total cost of $136,170. The project proposed a dam and three-mile pipe line from Lost Creek to near the city and the construction of an electric plant "designed to supply practically unlimited power" (Seward will ask $148,000 PWA funds, Jan 9, 1935, p. 1). Stratton and Beers of Juneau placed the PWA bonds. Bennett and Taylor of Los Angles was awarded the contract for the construction of the...

The Hyland Hotel, also known as the Everglenn Hotel, is a historic property, part of the settlement of Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and is nominated as a community center building within the New Deal Colony Settlement of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley in Alaska. The hotel was built on one of the main streets of Palmer, a city founded by the Resettlement Administration (RA) for the Matanuska Colony rural resettlement project. While the hotel was built by private individuals, the structure is associated with the New Deal because it was made possible by the Matanuska Colony initiative and the economic development it brought to...

In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) allotted funding for landscaping around the Hyperion Ave. Viaduct, built in 1929, in Los Angeles, CA.

The old Wailuku Armory was constructed with New Deal funding, according to local sources. Further details and confirmation of this is needed. The Iao Intermediate School took over the building in 2003 after extensive renovations.  The three-story building now houses 11 classrooms, administrative offices, a library and dining center, all enclosed and air-conditioned. (Honolulu Advertiser)

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the original Idaho Falls airport in 1935-37. We do not know which, if any, of the historic structures remain. "In 1935, the City of Idaho Falls partnered with the Works Project Administration (WPA) to produce the plans and funding needed to build a true airport in Idaho Falls. The hangar and administrator's cabin were built in 1936 of hand-hewn, peeled, native white pine. The hangar provided for maintenance, repair and shelter for aircraft, as well as support for the pilots. Its interior space was divided between the airplane storage and maintenance area and the small...

The Public Works Administraton (PWA) funded the construction of two swimming pools at Idlewild Park in Reno, Nevada in 1937. Western Construction News gives more detail: “Construction of a municipal swimming pool is under way, with work scheduled for completion in May . This project consists of a large 50×150 foot pool and a smaller unit 50×50 feet, with bathhouse facilities and equipment for recirculating and purifying the water completely every eight hours. This contract of $84,598 is being carried out by J. C. Dillard of Reno. PWA financing of $36,818 was used on the project. These programs have been carried out...

The Queens Branch of New York City's Independent Subway (IND) was extended during the 1930s with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The IND line completed in 1933 only went as far as Jackson Heights' Roosevelt Street station; on December 31, 1936, eight new stations were inaugurated, extending the line down Broadway and along Queens Blvd to Kew Gardens. Four additional stations opened on April 21, 1937, extending the line along Hillside Ave to downtown Jamaica.

The Queens Branch of New York City's Independent Subway (IND) was extended during the 1930s with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. On December 31, 1936, eight new IND subway stations opened in Queens, extending the subway from its 1933 Roosevelt Ave terminus in Jackson Heights to Kew Gardens. The Elmhurst Ave station in Elmhurst was one of the eight to open at this time.

The Queens Branch of New York City's Independent Subway (IND) was extended during the 1930s with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. On December 31, 1936, eight new IND subway stations opened in Queens, extending the subway from its 1933 Roosevelt Ave terminus in Jackson Heights to Kew Gardens. The Grand Ave–Newtown station in Elmhurst was one of the eight to open at this time.

The Queens Branch of New York City's Independent Subway (IND) was extended during the 1930s with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. On December 31, 1936, eight new IND subway stations opened in Queens, extending the subway from its 1933 Roosevelt Ave terminus in Jackson Heights to Kew Gardens. The Woodhaven Blvd station in Elmhurst was one of the eight to open at this time.

The Civil Works Administration funded improvements at the Industrial Home School for White Children, between 1933-1934. The structure appears to be today’s Guy Manson Recreation Center, but very little remains (see here and here). “It can be reported that during the year much very important work was accomplished by the Civil Works Administration. The roadway from Wisconsin Avenue around the buildings was completed; the large porches were repaired and painted; two large store rooms were constructed and a considerable area of the ground graded and converted into gardens with provision for irrigation. Anew tennis court has almost been finished, and suitable fences...

Public Works Administration project W1011 was approved for municipal improvements in Ketchikan 10/2/1936 in the amount of $67,950. Included was street improvements, removal of piling and planking on Water, Cliff, Main, Stedman, Front, Bawden, Mission and Mill Streets and replacing with treated piling and decking totaling $6,500 feet. The project also included placing gravel in a fill on Stedman street and a reinforced concrete bridge on Stedman Street spanning Ketchikan Creek. Construction started 1/8/1937 and was completed 10/25/1937.

The bandshell at the International Organization of Odd Fellows Park is believed to be the smallest bandshell built by the Works Progress Administration. It was completed in 1939 and is still extant.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built facilities and completed structural improvements at Interstate State Park in Taylors Falls, Minnesota. “The ten CCC/WPA/Rustic Style historic resources at Interstate State Park are included in two historic districts: a six-acre area known as Glacial Gardens and a 22-acre campground. The park buildings and structures were constructed of local basalt stone, which was probably quarried near the boundary of the park at a site where Highway 8 cut through a section of rock in 1931. A CCC crew may have quarried the stone for the WPA. Architects for the...

The Irving School was a grammar school in the City of Hornell, New York. After it burned in 1938, it was rebuilt the following year with labor provided through the Works Progress Administration. The 1939 building was incorporated into the current Hornell High School when that was built. The address provided is the modern address for the high school.

Ivan Bartlett created the terrazzo work "Life of Washington Irving," at Washington Irving Junior High School (now Irving STEAM Magnet School) in Los Angeles, CA. Completed in 1936, the mural was funded by the Federal Art Project (FAP). Located in the auditorium's interior foyer, the work depicts "characters and scenes from the works of American author Washington Irving, such as the headless horseman from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Dunitz, p. 105). Bartlett's other New Deal works in the region include a mural, "Industrial Activities in Long Beach" (1938), at Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, CA. He also assisted Norman Chamberlain...

A Public Works Administration grant helped fund the construction of an addition to O’Keeffe Elementary School at 70th Street and South Merrill Avenue in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. The two-story, nearly 10,000-square-foot addition was designed by Board of Education architect John Charles Christensen and provided eight new classrooms. The architectural style of the new addition was patterned after that of the existing school building and formed a short wing at the northern end of the original school building, which opened in 1925. Construction work on the addition began in April 1936 and was completed in time for the start of...

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) improved Jackie Tatum/Harvard Recreation Center (formerly Harvard Park) in Los Angeles, CA. The project included the construction of a pergola shelter house, playground and fencing, and the regrading of the baseball diamonds.  As of 2025, the playground and baseball diamonds are extant. The pergola shelter does not appear to survive. Jackie Tatum/Harvard Recreation Center was one of 43 public parks in Los Angeles improved by the WPA under a project approved in February 1936. The others included Algin Sutton Recreation Center, Highland Park Recreation Center, Evergreen Recreation Center, and Downey Recreation Center.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) approved an allotment of $18,317 for a new jail and office building for Prentiss and Jefferson Davis County December 1938. The WPA project employed 25-30 men. The new jail adjoined the courthouse and was a two-story concrete and steel building 32 by 53 feet. The first floor included five offices, vault, juvenile cell, and rest rooms. The second floor was for the jury dormitory, cells, and a “death cell.” Bids for materials for construction of the new jail building were advertised in August 1939. By January, the jail was in process of rebuilding. The jail...

The Mississippi state legislature approved Sb231 authorizing Jefferson County to issue $20,000 bonds for the construction of a new jail. President Roosevelt signed approval for Works Progress Administration project No. 50,036 September 26, 1940 for $23,775 to construction the jail. It is extant but not in use.

James A. Foshay Learning Center (formerly Junior High School), which opened in 1925, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1934-35. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District for the rehabilitation of schools damaged in the severe 1933 Long Beach earthquake.  One hundred and thirty schools would benefit from the system-wide loan and grant, with 2,500 men to be employed in rehabilitation work over 21 months. Upon receiving news of the PWA allocation, Board of Education member Arthur Eckman told the Los Angeles Times, “I am sure that every member of the...

In 1938, under the auspices of the WPA Federal Art Project (FAP), artist Suzanne Miller completed the fresco "A Visit to the Jungle" for Jane Addams Elementary School library in Long Beach, CA. According to the Arts Council for Long Beach, "This story-telling mural illustrates an original children’s fable, written by the artist, where children encounter an assortment of wise and friendly animals. Contemporaneous accounts note that the artist wrote a story of children visiting the jungle specifically to accompany her mural at the Jane Addams School." Miller also completed murals at the old Lincoln Park Main Library and Franklin Classical...

The Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration funded improvements at the Janney Playground in Washington DC. The work consisted of building one or more new shelters.

Here's the summary I wrote for the Docomomo US MN listing on our registry, heavily borrowing from the application linked below: Original section built in 1911 (designed by W.E.E. Greene of Luverne; Builder: Boyd Construction Co.; cost: $30,000), four additions in 1939, 1956, 1960, and 1965; the richness and beauty of the rose-colored Sioux quartzite stone itself (also called Jasper stone) provides the visual character of the building, laid in broken ashlar; the substantial, Moderne-style 1939 addition (designed by Perkins & McWayne of Sioux Falls; Cost: $125,000, with $45,135 in New Deal funds via the Public Works Administration) on the south...

Built as a K-12 public school, the Troupsburg Central School is still extant and in use as Jasper-Troupsburg Elementary School. According to A History of Troupsburg, NY (1808-2004), "It seems likely that the new school in Troupsburg was constructed with New Deal assistance. This fact seems to be confirmed with evidence found in the dedication program. On the list of events in the dedication ceremony, there is an address given by Captain Thomas W. Poindexter. Captain Poindexter is listed as a representative of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.... It seems highly unlikely that a representative from such an agency...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Jeff Lee Pool and Park in McAlester OK. The Jeff Lee Park swimming pool, built between 1936 and 1937, is a keyhole-shaped, poured-concrete structure measuring 175 by 60 feet, accompanied by two wading pools and a sandstone bath house. The single-story bath house, with a hipped roof and arched entryway, retains its historic integrity despite minor alterations. Constructed under the WPA, the pool and bath house exemplify the agency’s investment in practical recreational facilities. As one of the few WPA-built swimming complexes, Jeff Lee Park is notable for its craftsmanship and its role in...

Jefferson Leadership Academy (formerly Jefferson Junior High School) was rebuilt with New Deal funding after the original structure was destroyed in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. Designed by Warren Dedrick in WPA/PWA Moderne style, the academic and arts/sciences buildings were constructed in 1934; the shop building in 1935; and the boy’s and girl's physical education buildings, library, and cafeteria in 1936. The 1933 earthquake destroyed hundreds of schools throughout Southern California. “On August 29, 1933, Long Beach citizens approved a $4,930,000 bond measure for the rebuilding of schools. Applications for approximately thirty-five schools were filed with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and...

The municipal pool in Jefferson, Iowa was constructed with funds from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was opened to the public in July of 1937. One of over a dozen public pools constructed in Iowa with the aid of New Deal agencies and funds, the Jefferson Municipal swimming pool incorporated “the most modern equipment.” Its initial dimensions were 75 x 120 feet, with the tile and brick bathhouse standing at 22 x 88 feet. WPA officials and swimming pool designers took special care to equip New Deal pools with the latest engineering features. The pool included rounded corners to prevent injuries,...

A swimming pool, long known as the "Perris Hill Park Plunge", was built as part of extensive improvements to Perris Hill Park in 1934-35. The pool is known today as the Jerry Lewis Family Swim Center. The pool construction was done by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA), both of which were funded by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the predecessor of the better-known WPA (which  began in mid-1935).  The Works Progress Administration (WPA) did not build the Plunge, but finished off the job by adding concrete terracing around the pool. The Plunge played an important part...

Art Deco courthouse funded by WPA. KERC funding opened the quarries that provided the limestone. Building is still in use and on the National Register of Historic Places.

John Adams Middle School in Los Angeles, CA was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1936-37. In 1936, a two-story shop and boys' physical education building was constructed on Main St. The following year, two-story classroom and girls' physical education buildings—on S Hill St and the corner of Broadway and W 28th St, respectively—were built by contractors Person & Hollingsworth. All three PWA Moderne buildings were designed by architect T. C. Kistner. Construction totaled $314,373. The reconstruction and renovation of Los Angeles schools damaged by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake was the single largest PWA funded...