• Colfax Grammar School (former) - Colfax CA
    "The Colfax Grammar School (shown below) was built in 1940 as a Administration (WPA) building. Later it became the Colfax Elementary School. In 1986, it was acquired by the Sierra Vista Community Center, which offers classes, programs, and community events." The school has been substantially altered since its original construction and bears no direct indication of WPA involvement. However, sidewalks and retaining walls on the grounds bear at least five separate instances of WPA imprint stamps.
  • School Street Sidewalks and Retaining Walls - Colfax CA
    The former Colfax Grammar School (now Sierra Vista Community Center) and environs were developed by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1940. Both the surrounding sidewalks and retaining walls bear multiple "WPA 1940" imprint stamps. One instance is shield-shaped. Locations and coordinates of sidewalk imprint stamps (on the north side of School Street): (S1) Eastern end of retaining wall: 39.102562, -120.952843 (S2) School Street building entrance: 39.102710, -120.953671 Interestingly, WPA stamp "S2", which faces south, away from the former school entrance, is adjacent to a second, fainter, impression. That stamp, which faces east, appears almost as though it had been created in error, and then corrected...