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The Public Works Administration built the Eighth Dormitory at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today the dormitory is still in service under the name Becton Residence Hall. Construction of new dormitory building consists of brick load-bearing exterior walls, steel columns with bar joists and concrete slab floor construction, and steel roof trusses with Porete slab and slate shingle roof. The interior finish was plaster with wood trim and Bruce block flooring.

The Public Works Administration built the Ninth Dormitory at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today the dormitory is still in service under the name Berry Residence Hall. Construction of new dormitory building: brick load-bearing exterior walls, steel column with bar joist and concrete slab floor construction, and steel roof trusses with Porete slab and slate shingle roof. The interior finish was plaster with wood trim and Bruce block flooring.

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of Clark Hall at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh NC. Construction of Tenth Dormitory at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, NC: brick load-bearing exterior walls, steel columns with bar joists and concrete slab floor construction, and steel roof trusses with Porete slab and slate shingle roof. The interior finish was plaster with wood trim and Bruce block flooring. After a few years, the building became the college infirmary, and later a dining hall and office space.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed the shaft (which has been partially constructed during the 1920s) and base of bell tower on the North Carolina State College campus in Raleigh, NC, and faced it with granite. The project also included quarrying and preparation of granite in Surry County, NC, and transportation of this stone to Raleigh.

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the North Carolina State University: Nelson Hall in Raleigh NC. Construction of the Textile Building at North Carolina State College, a fireproof structure of reinforced concrete. Total floor space of 75,000 square feet comprising 7 classrooms and laboratories for all textile processes including special research and microscopic and photographic laboratories. Since the 1990s, the building has housed the university's Poole College of Management.

The Public Works Administration built the “C” Dormitory at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today the dormitory is still in service under the name Turlington Residence Hall. Construction of new dormitory building for 400 students: brick load-bearing exterior walls, steel column with bar joist and concrete slab floor construction, and steel roof trusses with Nailcrete slab and slate shingle roof. The interior finish was plaster with wood trim and Bruce random length flooring.

From 1938 to 1939, young relief workers from the National Youth Administration (NYA) built the North Casper Clubhouse in the city of Casper, Wyoming. Upon finishing the structure, the NYA noted that the “building was planned to meet a pressing need in the North Casper community and has been extensively used by various organizations and activity groups” (Cassity, 213). NYA workers constructed the building using a unique architectural method known as rammed earth construction. The walls of the clubhouse measure eighteen inches thick and are finished with metal lath, plaster, and stucco. The original design of the building included space for...

North Hi Mount Elementary School was constructed in 1934-35 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA). It was designed by local architect Wyatt C. Hedrick in a Spanish/Mediterranean Revival style. The picturesque building is complimented by a beautiful stone terrace and stairs designed by Hare & Hare and constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The three-dimensional quality of the stone work greatly enhances the walls of the terrace. The building has received sensitive additions over the years and is designated as a City of Fort Worth Historic and Cultural Landmark. It is among a handful of historic school buildings that...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work in Grand Canyon National Park from 1933 to 1942. Among its trail development work, according to the National Park Service (NPS), the CCC "improved the main trails into the canyon, Bright Angel and Kaibab, and added trails in the inner canyon, as well. ... At the North Rim, CCC company 818 widened and improved the North Kaibab Trail." The North Kaibab Trail descends from the North Rim to Black Bridge over the Colorado River, at which point it becomes the the South Kaibab Trail, which ascends to the South Rim.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) conducted extensive development work in Grand Canyon National Park from 1933 to 1942.  This included development work on the Grand Canyon's North Rim. CCC Walking Tour: " Company 818 worked on the ... North Rim during the summer months. Projects completed included buildings, fences, and roads. The crews also helped fight forest fires when necessary." More detailed information on these developments and their survival is needed.

The North School of Stoneham, Massachusetts was built in 1939 as an elementary school with the assistance of funds provided by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. It has been adaptively reused as eleven condominiums.

In 1939 the existing 1859 courthouse was extensively renovated and a new rear addition was added. This work was attributed to the WPA in a 1978 report entitled 100 Courthouses,  A Report on North Carolina Judicial Facilities. The architect for the new addition was A. Mitchell Wooten, who did the Lenoir Courthouse.

In 1934 the Flagstaff school board received a grant from the Public Works Administration (PWA) for a new elementary school on the south side of town. Additional funds came from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The South Beaver School was meant to serve the largely Mexican, Native and Black children of the neighborhood.  The school board had declared its intentions to build the school since 1918 but never came up with the funds until the New Deal stepped in. The PWA under Harold Ickes was n0ted for funding minority schools across the country. The school building was constructed with volcanic malpais,...

As noted on the sign for the Northern Great Basin Experimental Range today, the research station was "established in 1936, (and) dedicated to research on the ecology and management of rangelands." At its inception, the research facility was known as the Squaw Butte Federal Range Experiment Station. The project was a joint effort of the Grazing Service of the Department of Interior and researchers from Oregon State University to address issues of range and livestock management. The federal Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 had brought Western public domain lands together in an effort to stabilize the livestock industry and improve range...

Built in 1939 with PWA funds, the Northwest Office Building was originally supposed to be part of an expanded Capitol complex that never came to pass. The building is now used as headquarters for the Pennsylvania Liquor Board.

The Works Progress Administration built the Fredericks Creative and Performing Arts at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches LA. The Center contains the 1,000-seat A.A. Fredericks Auditorium and Theater West, a smaller performance venue. 

The Works Progress Administration built a swimming center for Northwestern State University. Northwestern State University closed the Nesom Natatorium in May of 2012.

From the New York Times: "The city of Norwalk, Conn., has one of the nation’s largest surviving collections of W.P.A. murals, thanks to a restoration effort in the 1980s that preserved nearly two dozen in the old Norwalk High School, now City Hall. The rescued artwork is on display there, while other murals decorate Norwalk Community College, the city’s public library and maritime aquarium, and other public places. Though many of the murals depict scenes from local history, several are more exotic: Five murals by an artist named Arthur G. Hull illustrate imagined scenes from the travels of Marco Polo. The...

Alexander Rummler painted two murals for the Norwalk High School cafeteria: "Birds of Connecticut" and "Mammals of Connecticut." The murals were funded by the WPA Federal Art Project. They are now located in the Baker Library at Norwalk Community College. Medium: oil on canvas Size: c. 10' x 6' Restoration Info: Property of City of Norwalk, CT, WPA Art Collection. Restored ca.1986.

This small bridge over Elk Creek was built in 1925. It was improved by the WPA in 1942.

The “Nursing and Health Professions Building” is among the four remnant buildings, out of nine, that had been built on A-State Campus during the depth of the depression. In September 1933, the ASU Board of Trustee considered plan for four new structures including “Education Building,” “Power Plant Building,” “Armory-Gymnasium,” and “Common Building.” The Common Building was later named “State Hall” in the mid of the 20th Century, then recently called “College of Nursing and Health Professions.” Interestingly, uniquely and funnily, the Common Building was built in 1935 from the top down. It was built as six-story building, on the site...

CCC and WPA crews constructed this football stadium for the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City. From the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Quarterly: "With the help of Works Project Administration (WPA) laborers and a $50,000 WPA grant, development continued from 1932 through 1936.* The Alumni Association raised the remaining funds to finish the field by contacting the school's 750 alumni through meetings held in 26 alumni regions around the country. With the successful fundraising drive, the $132,000 O'Harra Memorial Stadium was dedicated on September 16, 1938. Black Hills businesses and government agencies also provided valuable...

Founded as a town in 1671, Pawtucket, Rhode Island was home to the nation's first cotton-spinning machine at Slater Mill and is called the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America. The Oak Hill neighborhood, which borders Providence and the Seekonk River, is the small city's most affluent residential community. WPA plaques lay embedded in several stretches of these notably rough and pebbled sidewalks at 100-foot intervals, including along the two-block-long Progress Street at the heart of the neighborhood. (It is tempting to connect the naming of Progress Street to WPA activities in and around Oak Hill between 1935 and 1939,...

The Oak Knoll Tuberculosis Sanatorium, built in 1939 on an "oak-wooded knoll", according to the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, was renamed Norton Psychiatric in 1997. The PWA had contributed 45% of building costs. At the time, Sonoma County also applied for PWA funds to build nurses quarters at the hospital site- it is unknown whether these were actually built or if they still exist. The building is located across Chanate Rd. from the main hospital building.

The Works Progress Administration built the Oakes Field in South Charleston in 1939. The western edge of the stadium shares a common boundary with the former US Naval Ordinance plant. The field has an entrance to residential areas at 4th Avenue on the east center field and to the south through a stone wall with a gatehouse. Along the southeastern border is the Oakes Field House (1939 PWA). The stadium surrounds a football field with a track and has a drive-in entrance from 4th Avenue. To the south, a gate with long concrete ramp provides a walking entrance through the 12 foot,...

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Oakes Field House (former Recreation Building) in South Charleston in 1939. The Recreation Building, as it was called in 1939, is a two-story brick building with gable and seven bays facing 3rd street. The central three bays have arched doorways evocative of Palladian windows. The building is about 72 feet wide and 115 feet long with a small one-story raised brick structure extending towards the Oakes Field. An addition (possibly original, date is unknown) of approximately 12 x 22 feet is on the northwest corner. There are ten large two-story windows running along the...

The second Oakland Avenue Viaduct in Sharon, Pennsylvania opened on Christmas Day 1936 and was demolished June 23, 2001. The structure was built as a New Deal project sponsored by the Public Works Administration . The PWA provided a $72,396 grant toward this $158,074 project. The bridge bore an aluminum Public Works Administration plaque featuring the names of the Mercer County commissioners, engineer, solicitor, and contractor. (For some reason date "1938" was placed on the plaque.) PWA Docket No. 1168R

The Oakland-Merlin Overpass is a 1,759 foot long overpass that currently carries Malcom X Blvd (formerly Oakland Ave.) over the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Railyard near downtown Dallas, Texas. The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads oversaw the construction of the bridge with funding from the federal Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The overpass originally separated the grade of Oakland Ave and Merlin St from the tracks of the Gulf Coast and Sante Fe Railway. Uvalde Construction co. built the bridge in 1937 using Works Progress Administration labor.

In 1934, the Public Works Administration approved a loan of $4.2 million for a school building program in Fort Worth. Oaklawn Elementary School was one of the schools constructed from 1935 to 1936 through funding provided by the PWA. Architect Joseph R. Pelich selected a Spanish Eclectic style for the design. The contractor for the structure was James T. Taylor. The Works Progress Administration under the direction of Hare and Hare of Kansas City landscaped the school grounds from 1935 to 1937.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a a 2,517-foot-long rock wall on three sides on the perimeter of the Oakwood Cemetery in Cisco, Texas. According to the Texas Historical Commission, "The general landscape of the cemetery is traditional with granite, limestone, marble, and sandstone grave markers with a prominent WPA rock archway at the southeast entrance.  More than six hundred burials are veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War."

The Obion County Courthouse was erected in Union City, Tennessee during the Great Depression with the assistance of the Public Works Administration (PWA). The limestone veneer, PWA Moderne courthouse was built for "just over two hundred thousand dollars" with "Art Deco details, terrazzo floors, marble wainscoting, and Art Deco-styled ornamental metal" (Van West, p. 42).

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a concrete wall along the west side of Ocean Avenue. A metal plaque reads "Built by Works Progress Administration 1935-1036."

After the Bandon Fire of September 26th, 1936 destroyed the city's grade school along with most of the town, the community sought funds from the Public Works Administration (PWA) to assist in construction of its replacement. The PWA approved the request, providing 45 percent of the necessary funds for the new grade school. Construction began in January 1939 and after five months of work, the new Bandon Grade School was presented to the community. The local newspaper noted that PWA inspections occurred throughout the process with the result being: "the federal aid was efficiently administered and the local school district not...

Ogden High School is an excellent example of New Deal school building, featuring elegant architecture and all the modern features of the time.  It is still in use today and appears to have been little altered over time. From the PWA report of 1939: "It is one of the largest high schools in the State and will care for an enrollment of 2,000 students. The classroom section, which is 4 stories in height, contains 40 classrooms, domestic arts and science rooms, a cafeteria, 69 by 122 feet, physics, chemistry, and biology laboratories, and a library, 60 by 80 feet. The gymnasium section...

The PWA provided funding for the construction of the Ogden Municipal Building in 1939-1940.  The brick and terra cotta building was designed by the same team, Hodgson & McClenahen, as Ogden High School.  The building is still in use and has been put on the National Register of Historic Places.

This water management system was built by the SCS or Soil Management Service and its function remains the same as when it was constructed in 1936. The purpose of this concrete structure is to maintain a safe level of water which passes through a culvert under Oalis road near Strum, Wisconsin. The Soil Conservation Service was created in 1935 as a part of the Department of Agriculture which the purpose of preventing floods, run off, and other detrimental effects to top soil.

The heart of today's Greenbelt, Maryland – popularly known as "Old Greenbelt" – is a large, planned community laid out and constructed during the New Deal. It features community facilities such as a school, theater and community center, a large number and variety of housing, basic infrastructure of roads, water and sewers, and extensive landscaping and an attached forest.  Almost all of the original facilities are still intact. Greenbelt was one of four greenbelt towns initiated by Rex Tugwell, head of the Resettlement Administration (RA). Greendale, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, and Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati, are other surviving greenbelt towns; a fourth,...

The Old Jamestown Bridge, which spanned the west passage of Narragansett Bay, was constructed as a New Deal project: the Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied significant financial assistance for the then-$3 million project, which opened for traffic in 1940. The structure, which was demolished in 2006, has since been replaced. The structure bore a "Federal Works Agency // Public Works Administration" plaque. Art in Ruins: "Planning for a bridge at this location began as early as 1920 and was spurred by the financial woes of the Newport Ferry Company. The noted bridge engineering firm Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff and Douglass, which also designed the...

The Works Progress Administration built the Morton County Courthouse in 1936 in Richfield KS. County maintenance building (later temporary courthouse).

Built in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration. Moved from Clare Ln in Pinetop in 1988. Donations Made by First Interstate Bank, JTPA Youth, and The People of Pinetop-Lakeside to Preserve Pinetop's History. History: It appears that the jail of the past has been reconstructed to its current configuration, with major changes like cell bar locations, stone, etc.