- Road Paving - Hartford ARThe federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) undertook a sizable road development project in Sebastian County, Arkansas: "under the work the main street of every town in the county has been paved. No other county in the state can make this claim."
- Road Paving - Huntington ARThe federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) undertook a sizable road development project in Sebastian County, Arkansas: "under the work the main street of every town in the county has been paved. No other county in the state can make this claim."
- Road Paving - Lavaca ARThe federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) undertook a sizable road development project in Sebastian County, Arkansas: "under the work the main street of every town in the county has been paved. No other county in the state can make this claim."
- Road Paving - Mansfield ARThe federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) undertook a sizable road development project in Sebastian County, Arkansas: "under the work the main street of every town in the county has been paved. No other county in the state can make this claim."
- Road Paving - Midland ARThe federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) undertook a sizable road development project in Sebastian County, Arkansas: "under the work the main street of every town in the county has been paved. No other county in the state can make this claim."
- Roadside Park - Arkadelphia ARA roadside park near Arkadelphia, was constructed fall, 1936 as NYA Proj. 2777-Y-10. The exact location and current status of the park are unknown to the Living New Deal.
- Rye Hill Road Bridge - Greenwood ARThe bridge carrying Rye Hill Road over Prairie Creek, between Greenwood and Fort Smith, Arkansas, was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941.
- Saline County Courthouse Mural - Benton ARJulius Woeltz painted this 12' x 6' oil on canvas mural, entitled "The Bauxite Mines," in 1942 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural was originally installed in the Benton post office and it now hangs in the Saline County Courthouse. From the Benton Courier: "The mural's early history is profiled in a publication, titled 'Postmasters: Arkansas Post Office Art in the New Deal,' by John Purifoy Gill. "In the publication, Gill notes that Arkansas' bauxite mines were a natural inspiration for Julius Woeltz, a University of Texas art professor, who received an invitation to paint the mural just five...
- Sandtown Road - Sandtown ARSandtown Road was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1939 near Cushman, Arkansas, USA. A WPA marker on Sandtown Road reads "USA 1939 WPA."
- School Building - Smithville ARThe fieldstone school was built in 1936 by the WPA, in part in an effort to help revive the town. The school closed in 1946 during a consolidation, and was later converted to a community center. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From contributor Lindsay Penn: "In 1936, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the Smithville Public School Building in Smithville, Arkansas. The WPA-funded stone building replaced a ca. 1872, one-room, frame schoolhouse, which had replaced the Solomon Schoolhouse (constructed ca. 1840) on land that is now part of the Smithville Cemetery. Smithville had served as the county...
- School Building (former) - Alco ARThe one-story stone school was constructed in the Plain Traditional style in 1938 by the NYA. The construction of the school was an economic and education boost to Stone County, one of the most isolated of Arkansas counties, with the lowest population in the state. In 1992, it was converted to a private residence.
- School Gymnasium and Auditorium (former) - Marion ARA gymnasium/auditorium was built for Marion High School in Marion, Arkansas in 1938-39 with a funding from the state Department of Education and the federal Public Works Administration (PWA) – also known as the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (see plaque). (The high school paper at the time made the common mistake of confusing the PWA with the WPA (Works Progress Administration)). The new structure was built across the street from the old Marion High School on E. Military Road. According to the Marion High School Yearbook of 1942, it included typing and bookkeeping rooms, two music rooms, a biological laboratory,...
- Scott County Courthouse (former) - Waldron ARCurrently vacant, the former "Scott County Courthouse in Waldron was designed in 1934 by the Fort Smith architects Bassham & Wheeler, and was constructed in part with Works Progress Administration labor... "The Scott County Courthouse stands as the finest Art Deco building in Waldron. The quality of its typically geometric, shallow detail is particularly fine in such features as the carved stone panels above the windows on the main and side elevations, the shallow stylized floral patterns above the pilasters which flank the front entry, and the inscribed lettering in the stone entrance parapet, spelling “COURTHOUSE.” Of special note are the...
- Shady Lake Recreation Area - Mena ARShady Lake is a popular 25-acre recreational impoundment in the Ouachita National Forest served by an accompanying U.S. Forest Service recreation area. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was involved in construction of a bathhouse (1936), dam and picnic pavilion (1938), and a caretakers house (1940).
- Shiloh Museum of Ozark History Mural - Springdale ARThis mural "Local Industries" by Natalie Henry was completed with support from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1940. It was originally in the Springville Post Office, but it is now on display at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. From the University of Central Arkansas: "Natalie Henry was commissioned to create a mural for Springdale, Arkansas as a result of an Honorable Mention in a Section of Fine Arts competition. She visited town and observed that most farms within the area had vineyards and orchards and that the houses were quite well maintained. She used her father, brother, and...
- Sink-Crumb Post 72 American Legion Hut - Knobel ARThe Sink-Crumb Post 72 American Legion Hut, located on the northeastern corner of 2nd and Cherry streets in the small Clay County community of Knobel, is a tin-roofed cypress log building designed in the Rustic aesthetic common among American Legion buildings erected during the early 1930s. Little is known about the construction of the building other than the fact that local men cut and notched the logs from which the building was constructed. The hut was completed in early 1934, and the first meeting was held there on March 30. The Clay County Courier reported that “Sink-Crumb American Legion Post, No....
- Slaytonville Road Bridge - Hackett ARThe bridge carrying Slaytonville Road over a branch of James Fork, south of Hackett, Arkansas, was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941.
- Solomon Grove Smith-Hughes Building - Twin Groves ARLocal African American youth in the African American community of Twin Groves built the main school building and a "shop" under the direction of local stonemason Silas Owens, Sr. The project was funded by the National Youth Administration with assistance from the Hughes-Smith Act. The "shop" was used for vocational education (primary purpose of the Smith-Hughes Act), and also for classes when needed. Owens would continue to develop his "mixed masonry" methods that would ensure his place in stone buildings in Arkansas. Many of the men living in the Twin Groves area continue to practice as brick masons using the...
- South Arkansas Community College Gym - El Dorado ARThe gym was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940 for use by the local high school and El Dorado Junior College which shared the building. The gym remains in use today on what is now the South Arkansas Community College campus.
- South Elementary School (Former) - Wynne AR"...During this time Cross County was suffering effects of the Great Depression along with the rest of the nation. They did not have the funding needed for new classrooms. The creation of the PWA program was their salvation and a new four classroom building was built circa 1936. This new building became known as South Elementary and housed the 3rd and 4th grades classes for many years and eventually became the 2nd grade building. The first teachers were Miss Bobbie Smith and Miss Lucile Kernodle who both taught 3rd grade and Miss Elaine Smith and Leola Hamilton who taught 4th...
- Southern Arkansas University Buildings - Magnolia AR"The Cross and Nelson Hall Historic District, located on the campus of Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Columbia County, is being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for its association with the Public Works Administration’s work in Columbia County, a social works project of the 1930s. Cross and Nelson Halls were one of two PWA-built projects in Magnolia, and the most intact remaining project constructed by the PWA. As a result, the buildings best exemplify the PWA’s work in Magnolia during the 1930s. It is also being nominated under the multiple property listing “An Ambition to...
- Spruce St. - Lewisville ARSpruce Street is identified as a WPA project, paved April 1938, by an etching in the pavement at the corner of Spruce and Second Street. The mayor's name during the project appears to be J. M. Talkett. Arkansas employed more than half of their relief workers on the road and street program (WPA Highway, Road, and Street Projects, 1936 Report on the Progress of the Works Program, October 15, 1936).
- Stone Creek Way - Norfork ARWorks Progress Administration (WPA) completed improvements to Stone Creek Way in the vicinity of White River, Baxter County. A marker that reads "WPA 1939" is present on site.
- Sugar Loaf Creek Bridge - Hartford ARThe bridge carrying Gap Road over Sugar Loaf Creek, northwest of Hartford, Arkansas, was constructed by the Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) in 1941.
- Tall Peak Fire Tower - Hot Springs ARThe Tall Peak Fire Tower is located southeast of Mena on Forest Service Road No. 38A in Polk County in Ouachita National Forest. The tower is a two story, field stone and wood structure built on a continuous stone foundation. The first level is made of field stone and each comer has the distinctive inward-sloping corners peculiar to Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) construction. The fist level consists of a single room that has two small, stationary windows on the west and south sides and a single door on the east side. The north side of the structure has an external...
- The Cannery - Dyess ARThe cannery was an integral part of the large WPA resettlement community, known as Dyess Colony, located in northeastern Arkansas. It was located in the town's central hub along with other buildings like the commissary, the administration building, and various shops. The cannery, or canning plant, enabled colonists to process their own produce, as well as sell canned products, cooperatively. This allowed for self sufficiency but also for cooperative income. In Dyess Colony, every family was required to plant a garden that was adequate for feeding their whole family. Home demonstration clubs were also a part of the colony's support...
- Tuckerman Water Tower - Tuckerman AR"The Tuckerman Water Tower is a historic waterworks facility at the south end of Front Street in Tuckerman, Arkansas. It is a tall metal structure, with four latticed legs, braced with rods and sloping inward, to support a water tank that is bowl-shaped at the bottom and topped by a conical roof. A pipe traverses the center of the tower for the movement of water to and from the tank. Built in 1935 with funding support from the Depression-era Public Works Administration (PWA), it is the only remaining PWA tower of its type in the county. The tower was listed on...
- Tyronza Water Tower - Tyronza AR"The Tyronza Water Tower is a historic elevated steel water tower located in Tyronza, Arkansas. It was built in 1935 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in conjunction with the Public Works Administration as part of a project to improve the local water supply. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, as part of a multiple-property listing that included numerous other New Deal-era projects throughout Arkansas. The Tyronza Water Tower is considered an excellent representation of 1930s-era waterworks construction. In 2003, a new, 200,000-gallon steel water tower was built next to the 1935 tower, in...
- University of Arkansas - Fayetteville AR"While PWA funding was typically focused on local school districts in the public school system, seven buildings were constructed on the University of Arkansas campus using this funding. Buildings constructed with PWA funds during this period include Vol-Walker Hall (1935), the Chemistry Building (1936), Gibson Hall (1937), the Men’s Gymnasium (1937), Ozark Hall (1940), the Home Economics Building (1940), and Memorial Hall (1940). While the design oversight for these buildings was provided by Jamieson & Spearl based on the guidance of their 1925 plan, the construction documents and project administration for many of these buildings was completed by local Arkansas...
- University of Arkansas at Monticello Music Building - Monticello AROriginally the fine arts building, and now the music building. "This structure houses the various fine arts departments of the college. On the first floor are the offices, recitation and class rooms, and a small auditorium seating 185. The second floor is given up entirely to recitation and practice rooms. The building is semifireproof, the exterior walls being faced with random rock-faced stone ashlar trimmed with cut limestone. The plan permits of easy enlargement. The project was completed in May 1935. The construction cost was $94,856 and the project cost $105,897."
- University of Arkansas Livestock Forestry Station - Batesville AR"The Livestock and Forestry Research Station - known as the Batesville Station - is a 3,000-acre unit developed to do research with beef cattle management/production and forestry. The primary focus of this unit is to do large-scale replicated forage utilizing three of the predominate forages commonly used in Arkansas – Kentucky fescue, Bermuda grass and winter annuals on approximately 1,250 acres of pasture and hay areas. Research is conducted using the 350-head brood cow herd. The forestry program is comprised of 1,750 acres of upland hardwood timber and shortleaf pine. These tracts of timber are managed to enhance productivity, species...
- University of Arkansas: Chemistry Building - Fayetteville AR"Although there was already a chemistry building on campus, by 1925 it had become too small. There were plans to build a new building by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1927, and was scheduled to be built in 1931. However, the Great Depression delayed these plans. In January 1934, $1,165,000 was made available for the construction of both a new chemistry building and Vol Walker Library. These funds came from the Public Works Administration, and not the Arkansas legislature. Opened in December 1935, the building housed the chemistry, zoology, geology, philosophy, and psychology departments. Eventually, the growing University forced all of these...
- University of Arkansas: Futrall Memorial Hall - Fayetteville AR"The University of Arkansas Campus Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2009. The district covers the historic core of the University of Arkansas campus, including 25 buildings. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 23, 2009 and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of October 2, 2009. The historical core of campus was built in many phases, coincident with when funding was available to build. Beginning with the construction of Old Main in...
- University of Arkansas: Gibson Hall - Fayetteville AR"The new men's dormitory at the University of Arkansas is divided into three separate units, each having its own entrances and stairway. The building is 55 by 189 feet in plan and 3 stories in height. On the first floor are 19 double rooms, a lobby, and a social room. The second and third floors each provide 21 double rooms, so that the entire building can accommodate 122 students. The structure is fireproof, with reinforced concrete floor and roof slabs and exterior walls of brick trimmed with stone. It was completed in August 1937 at a...
- University of Arkansas: Home Economics Building - Fayetteville AR"After completion of the PWA-funded University Library and Chemistry Building, the University received an additional $413,000 loan and $337,909 grant from the PWA for the construction of three additional buildings on campus. The PWA funds were used to construct the Home Economics Building (now the Human Environmental Sciences Building), Student Union (now known as Memorial Hall), and the Classroom Building (now Ozark Hall). Architects for all three of these buildings were Haralson & Mott of Fort Smith with Mann & Wanger of Little Rock. The three-story Home Economics Building, constructed in 1940, is a masonry building of Indiana white limestone...
- University of Arkansas: Old Field House / Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences - Fayetteville AR"The new building is 3 stories in height. On the ground floor are locker, storage, and utility rooms. The gymnasium and auditorium occupy the entire first floor. A small second floor, across the front of the building, contains offices. There is an additional entrance to the ground floor from the outside. The building is 115 by 169 feet. The playing floor of the gymnasium is 103 by 135 feet, sufficient for 2 practice basketball courts when the bleacher seats are folded. When these seats are open the floor space provides a standard basketball court, and 2,112 spectators may be seated....
- University of Arkansas: Ozark Hall - Fayetteville AR"After completion of the PWA-funded University Library and Chemistry Building, the University received an additional $413,000 loan and $337,909 grant from the PWA for the construction of three additional buildings on campus. The PWA funds were used to construct the Home Economics Building (now the Human Environmental Sciences Building), Student Union (now known as Memorial Hall), and the Classroom Building (now Ozark Hall). Architects for all three of these buildings were Haralson & Mott of Fort Smith with Mann & Wanger of Little Rock... Ozark Hall was originally constructed in 1940 as the Classroom Building, in the Collegiate Gothic style. This...
- University of Arkansas: Razorback Stadium - Fayetteville ARMultiple substantial building projects were undertaken on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville during the Great Depression. The federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) was responsible for an enormous amount of that new development at the time. However, the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) contributed as well. The W.P.A. built a new stadium for the fledgling institution. Now known as Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, the venue has served as the home for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks since its opening in 1938. A 1940 W.P.A. document described the need and benefits of the new stadium: Because of the suddenly acquired national fame...
- University of Arkansas: Vol Walker Hall (Library) - Fayetteville AR"Before construction of this new building, the library of the University of Arkansas was housed in the nonfireproof administration building. The new structure has a capacity of 265,000 volumes and furnishes study desks for approximately 600 students. In addition, there are cubicles in the stack room where research work can be carried on. The basement has a museum across the entire front of the building, including work space, receiving, storage, and utility rooms. On the first floor are browsing and research rooms, offices, and seminar rooms. The main reading room extends the full length of the...
- University of Central Arkansas: Auditorium Addition - Conway AR"Over the next two decades, the Administration Building witnessed the expansion of Arkansas State Teachers College, growing from twenty faculty members and 328 students in 1917 to forty-four faculty members and 745 students in 1939. Despite the effects of the Great Depression, moreover, the college was able to add a 1,200 seat auditorium on the west side of the Administration Building in 1937. The auditorium addition was designed by George Hyde Wittenberg (1892-1953) and Lawson L. Delony (1890-1976) of Little Rock. This, and three other new campus buildings, was funded by economic stimulus funds supplied by the Public Works Administration...