• Chemawa Middle School Rex Brandt Murals - Riverside CA
    Rex Brandt was commissioned by the PWAP to paint five murals for Chemawa Junior High School in Riverside, CA. At the time, Brandt was a student at Riverside Community College. When the school was remodeled in 1973, the murals were presumed lost. However, four of the five have happily since been found. Two now hang in the refurbished school, and two are in storage at the Riverside Art Museum. The Riverside Unified School District is still hoping to find the fifth. An attempt to have the murals restored is also currently underway. "The panels in storage are 48 inches by 60 inches...
  • Fremont Elementary School - Riverside CA
    A $40,000 building was built at Fremont Elementary School under the WPA, the most extensive work done on any Riverside school. In the field of education, WPA relief was limited to repair and construction work. The WPA did work on seventeen Riverside area schools, with such tasks as painting Lincoln Elementary School, improving the Bryant Elementary School playgrounds, and rebuilding the Riverside City College chemistry lab. It appears from Google photos that the building constructed by the WPA is no longer extant. Newer looking buildings comprise the elementary school today.
  • High School Addition - Riverside CA
    New Deal high school addition in Corona, CA.
  • Juan Bautista De Anza Statue - Riverside CA
    Located at the southeast corner of Fourteenth Street and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside, California is the Juan Bautista De Anza statue, created by Sherry Peticolas with WPA support. The Riverside Art Association, which sponsored the project, donated $5,000 and the rest of the cost was paid for with federal funds. The space in Newman Park was provided by the city, and Riverside resident Ed J. Loustaunau, a great-great-great-great-grandnephew of De Anza posed for the statue, since he was thought to resemble an old portrait of De Anza himself. Because of the unstable nature of the land where it is located,...
  • Main Street Improvements - Riverside CA
    Along Main Street, between 1st and Poplar exist a small number of concrete curb stops located at asphalted, angled parking stalls that flow directly from the roadway heading north. These curb stops were part of a WPA street improvement project in 1940. The southbound lane along Main Street also contained angled parking stalls but have recently been converted to vertical parking lanes and the original concrete curb stops removed.
  • March Field - Riverside CA
    From the WPA verso below: "March Field, Riverside, where is situated the headquarters of the Fourth Air Force of the General Headquarters Air Corps, U.S. Army; Major General Jacob E. Fickel, commanding. This field first in the southwest in area and in number and variety of facilities provided for the largest number of Uncle Sam's fliers and future fliers is 80 percent WPA built. Established as an aviation training center during World War #1, it fell later into disuse. For years grss and weeds covered its small runway and the frame hangars. Officers quarters and barracks presented a desolate picture as...
  • Riverside Ave - Riverside CA
    3.5 miles of street were graded and paved under a New Deal federal grant of $115,000.