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  • New Ulm High School Additions - New Ulm MN
    With support from the Works Project Administration (WPA), major additions to this 1915 school were completed in 1939, designed by the Mankato firm of Pass and Rockey. The south addition, with an auditorium/ gymnasium, uses Art Deco motifs, while the north addition, containing classrooms and a dining hall, mimics the 1915 design.
  • P Street Paving - Washington DC
    In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed a paving project on P Street, a short stretch of road in the city's southwest quadrant. This was part of a nearly $1 million WPA program of street paving in the District that fiscal year.
  • Thirteenth and G Street NE Resurfacing - Washington DC
    Work: A Journal of Progress reported that the Works Progress Administration (WPA) had completed street resurfacing in the vicinity of 13th and G Streets NE in 1936. This would have been part of the nearly $1 million program of street repairs carried out by the WPA that year. The work is likely still extant, but invisible beneath subsequent repavings.
  • E Street NW Paving - Washington DC
    In 1941, the Washington Post reported the start of a $1,158,000 road paving program carried out by the Public Roads Administration division of the Federal Works Administration (FWA). One of the streets slated to be paved was E Street between 21st and 22nd Streets, NW. That stretch of E Street has been modified by subsequent construction of the E Street Expressway.
  • Utah Avenue NW Paving - Washington DC
    A 1941 article in the Washington Post reported the imminent start of paving on Utah Avenue NW between Nebraska Avenue and Pinehurst Circle at the Maryland border, to be conducted by the Bureau of Public Roads, a division of the Federal Works Administration (FWA).
  • South Capitol Street SE Paving - Washington DC
    In 1941, the Washington Post reported that funds for paving projects in Congress Heights, Barry Farm, Bellevue, and Washington Highlands had been approved as part of a large roads program. The Public Roads Administration, a subdivision of the Federal Works Administration (FWA), was approved to pave the following stretches on and around South Capitol Street SE, across the Anacostia River:  Firth Sterling Avenue and South Capitol Street between Howard Road and Nichols Avenue SE; Overlook Avenue, from South Capitol Street to Fourth and Chesapeake Streets SW; South Capitol Street, from Atlantic Street to the District line. Work was to start...
  • Congress Heights Water Mains - Washington DC
    In 1942, the Washington Post reported the approval of funds for the Federal Works Administration (FWA) to construct more than two miles of water mains in the Congress Heights neighborhood in SE Washington DC.  While there is currently no evidence that funds were cancelled, we have not been able to verify the completion of the work.
  • Flood Reconstruction - Farmington NH
    The 1936 Annual Report of the Town of Farmington N.H. reported the following WPA flood recovery projects: The year started out most discouragingly with the disastrous floods of March 12th and 19th, 1936. An idea of the damage done at that time may be had from the following figures covering the cost of repairs. Using figures furnished us by the State Highway Department the net expenditure by the town (1/8 of 1 per cent of our valuation as required by special act of the legislature) was: Town expenditure:  $2,471.64 State expenditure:   $1,488.47 Total:                          $3,960.11 To this should be added W. P. A. payrolls...
  • Sewer Plant Improvements - Farmington NH
    The 1936 Selectmens report mentions W.P.A. assistance to the town of Farmington: "With respect to Article 3 of the Warrant covering budget items 10 and 11-a, we suggest a small appropriation of $1350.00 to cover our 'Sponsor's Contribution' for the completion of the W. P. A. project for the reconstruction of the filtration system at the sewage disposal plant. The $670.02 thus far expended by the town on this project has come from a surplus in revenues other than taxes and other balances accruing during the year but we think it advisable to make this provision for its completion."
  • Idaho Falls Regional Airport - Idaho Falls ID
    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...
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