Santa Paula Sites

The historic New Deal post office in Santa Paula, California was constructed with Treasury Department funds. It was built to the same specifications as the post office in Huntington Beach, which was built the same year. Construction of the building is sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA.

The State Emergency Relief Agency (SERA) funded the construction of the Santa Paula City Fire Staion #1 in Santa Paula CA. Fire Station for Santa Paula will be demolished in 2024 under a CEQA Cat Ex. No historic review was done.  Historic report: Historic resources evaluation was prepared by San Buenaventura Research Associates of Santa Paula, California, October 1995: "Santa Paula City Fire Staion #1 -- This one-story brick and concrete block building is composed of two major connected elements, the engine bay to the north and office to the south. The engine bay is rectangular in plan, roughly twenty feet in height, with...

The school was originally founded in 1888, but was heavily damaged in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. Beginning in 1933 most of the facilities were rebuilt by the WPA. "The school has tiled roofs, arched hallways and red brick hallways. Its 350 seat auditorium with balcony is decorated with murals." -https://santapaulahighschoolhistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/santa-paula-high-school-gets-new-look.html

This 1936 WPA mosaic is on the outside front of the auditorium.

The petrachrome murals "Santa Paula" and "Youth" were created by Buckley MacGurrin with WPA Federal Art Project (FAP) funds for Santa Paula High School in Santa Paula, CA. MacGurrin also painted a pair of FAP murals for the former Hall of Records in Los Angeles, CA, which was demolished in 1971. The status of these murals is unknown.