• Madera Approach Road to Friant Dam - Madera CA
    The Madera Approach Road was built to provide access to the Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River above Fresno CA, built by the Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1940. It was built with a combination of state, local and federal funds, using Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor and completed in 1940.  The work covered about 15 miles of roadway, to wit: "The first fifteen miles of the twenty mile Madera approach road to the Friant Dam is the portion of State Highway Route 126 between Madera and the Fresno-Yosemite Highway . The Division of Highways, in cooperation with the...
  • Madera County Hospital - Madera CA
    The Madera County Hospital was built using Public Works Administration funds and Works Progress Administration labor. The PWA built building is now the headquarters of the Madera County Public Health Department. There was a bronze plaque inside the building where the entrance used to be indicating the date, 1935, the supervisors, and the architect Ernest J. Kump. 'It is a one-story building and provides an operating department of six rooms, an X-ray department of three rooms, a maternity unit of 10 rooms including two wards, a children's ward, a dental department of three rooms, nine men's wards, two solariums, an observation room, a...
  • Madera County Projects - Madera CA
    In addition to other projects in Madera County, the WPA completed a county detention center as well as a bridge on Minturn-Planada Rd. over the Chowchilla River.
  • Post Office - Madera CA
    The post office in Madera, California was constructed with federal funds. The building was completed in 1936 and is still in use today.
  • Sidewalk Paving - Madera CA
    "In Madera, the WPA employed crews to upgrade the city's pavements during 1941. Many of these pavements are still used today in the downtown area. If you look closely, you will see the WPA stamps." The photographs below were taken on Fourth St. in Madera in 2008.