Survival: No Longer Extant

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted school construction / extension / improvement work in Taiban, New Mexico. In 1935 the WPA allocated $2,367 for schoolground improvements at the school in Taiban. WPA Official Project No. 65-85-325. The community no longer maintains a school and the structure is no longer extant. Beata Olszowka reports: "The site of the former school in Taiban, NM is located behind the Presbyterian church," which is located at the northern end of Munger Avenue. The former school site is a couple hundred feet NNW of the church. The site "is clearly visible and recognizable using Google Maps...

The old Thermopolis City School was constructed during the 1930s with the assistance of funding from the federal Public Works Administration (PWA Docket No. WY 1058-DS). The school was located on Springview Street, between Big Horn and Mondell streets, and faced west. An auditorium/gymnasium extended eastward. Were it still standing, the building would occupy the space that is currently between the Hot Springs County School District and the Ralph Witters School. A new high school was constructed around the corner during the late 1950s (along Park St.); an even newer high school is located a few hundred feet further down the...

Federal Public Works Administration Docket No. NY 2754 entailed the construction of two school buildings in Jamestown, New York: the new Jamestown High School and the Industrial Arts Building, which was located to the school's southeast. Modern imagery suggests that the Industrial Arts Building has since been demolished, perhaps during the process of expanding the facilities of the high school.

A 1934 issue of California Highway & Public Works reported that, "At Ellwood (a neighborhood of Goleta), a change of line, including the approaches to the new concrete bridge over the Southern Pacific tracks, has been completed with a 20 foot P. C. C. pavement on a 36·foot graded roadbed under the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act." The New Deal era bridge is gone, replaced by a new one by CalTrans. The original was probably funded by the early PWA, then called the "Emergency Public Works Administration", which was created as part of the NIRA but far outlasted the parent...

James L. Hansen received a Section of Fine Arts contract to complete a sculpture decoration for the new Lisbon, North Dakota post office on March 7, 1942. The terra-cotta relief was titled "Family Group." Mr. Hansen was to receive a sum of $850 for the work; however, his enlistment in the U.S. Navy and his attendant relocation made the artist unable to install the work; as such $50 was deducted from his final payment. According to WPAmurals.com: "This information is from Ms. Elizabeth Anderson from the Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Lisbon, ND relief was completed in 1943 but was never installed in...

In 1933-34, the California State Highway Department expanded and paved a two-mile section of the road behind the town of Carmel (now Highway 1) from the top of the hill down to the Carmel River.  They also built the first concrete bridge across the Carmel River. The work was paid for by the Public Works Administration (PWA), or as it was officially known when created under the National Recovery Act of 1933, the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. This section of highway has been expanded further and repaved in recent years and the Carmel River bridge has been replaced with a...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the first toboggan slide. The original toboggan slide was built by the CCC 'boys' for their own recreational use while they were working on the park between 1934 and 1942.   It was so popular with the public that it has since been rebuilt, enlarged and remodeled several times, so the current structure is not the original nor contains any part of it. The toboggan slide is not marked as CCC, but the CCC is commemorated in other parts of Pokagon Park.  A permanent exhibit in the Nature Center lists all the structures they worked on and...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp at Pokagon State Park in order to work on developing the park. The camp was there from 1933 to 1942, when the CCC program closed down.  The camp was dismantled afterward. Camp SP-7 housed Company 556 and consisted of officers quarters, six barracks, headquarters building, recreational hall, bath house/laundry, mess hall, latrine, motor pool shed, blacksmith/tool storage, educational/shop building, pumphouse and water tower, and ham radio shed.   The site is marked by a sign on a stone pedestal, built by one of the former CCC boys some 40 years after the camp closed. More...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees at Pokagon State Park created a series of three fish rearing ponds, originally with dams between them, fed by an existing spring. They were completed in 1935 and used to assure Lake James would be well stocked with desirable fish. Many state parks in Indiana had such fish rearing ponds, most of them constructed by New Deal agencies.  With changes in conservation practices, the ponds were left to languish, but remnants are still visible in the winter months. The former ponds are not marked.  Only two sites in the park are marked individually as CCC; but the...

The since-demolished Douglass and Harrison Apartments was a housing project in Newark, New Jersey. According to the Federal Writers' Project, "Construction costs (approximately $1,800,000) were reduced through the help of the city and the Civil Works Administration in grading the entire site."