Indiana Sites

The souvenir stand was completed  by CCC laborers in 1940. The style of the shelter is classified as Parks Rustic.

The Spring Mill Inn, completed in 1939, was the only new park hotel built during the New Deal years, and the extent of the WPA's involvement with this project, if any, remains unclear. Records indicate CCC laborers contributed to building the road, parking lot, and landscaping.

The CCC laborers completed the Spring Mill Lake in 1937. The CCC workers also built a dam. The dam has remained in use and is unaltered.

The Sycamore Shelter was completed by CCC laborers in 1935.The style of the shelter is classified as Parks Rustic.

These restrooms were completed by CCC laborers in 1934. The style of the structure is classified as Parks Rustic.

Flat paired doors, flat windows. Typical mid 19th cen school building. Constructed by the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1936 and 1937.

Building was the hatchery office, since replaced by a pole barn to the South (Building now empty). More recent development is to the south (an additional pond, a property manager’s residence), and west of the lower ponds (headquarters and maintenance buildings). Constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1937 and 1939.

Concrete foundation, hipped and gabled roof, and flat-roofed dormers all 4 sides. Site of Starve Hollow nursery immediately to South with white pine plantings. Constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1938 and 1939.

175-acre lake impounded by earth dam. Large concrete spillway Southeast end. Set in heavily wooded hollow. Fish hatchery below dam. Constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1938 and 1939.

What was then Stout Field was developed as part of a massive New Deal project, with funds and labor provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It is sometimes difficult, from sources, to differentiate work done at this facility and work conducted at what is now Indianapolis International Airport. Some of these references may instead apply to that airport, another site of extensive WPA work. Per The Indianapolis Star, "More than 600 WPA workers also prepared Stout Field for entry into World War II by upgrading the facility that had originally opened in 1927. The control tower and hangar were designed...

The Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) supplied an "unprecedented" $3,120,000 loan to Charles W. Chase to "expand further the Indianapolis system and buy even more state-of-the-art cars." These efforts helped increase patronage of the street car system by 25%, and "apparently reversed a trend everybody said was inevitable." P.W.A. Docket No. IN 5582

Stuart Hall was constructed in 1939-40 with New Deal funding, presumably from the Public Works Administration (PWA) (then under the Federal Works Administration).  The building, which is named after Arsenal Tech's first principal, stands in the center of the 75-acre Arsenal Technical High School campus. Stuart Hall is a long, four-story brick building with a central bell tower that holds a carillon. It is meant to echo the look of the original Civil War arsenal building on campus, but in the Moderne (Deco) style popular in the 1930s, done by Pierre & Wright architects. The bell tower has three narrow windows...

Pearl City was an area of Vincennes that was described by the newspapers in the 1930's at the time as an area next to the Wabash River that was filled with hovels made of crates and tin and occupied by barely recognizable humans living in squalid conditions after shell fishing by squaters declined. With labor supplied by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 20 houses were constructed in a 4 acre area called Sunset Court. From the look of the photograph, the small houses can be compared to the popular tiny houses today. Still, considering that the people who moved...

The Physical Science Building (now Swain Hall West) houses Indiana University's Physics and Astronomy departments. Estimates for building construction began in 1938, and the building was completed in 1940 by the Federal Works Agency (FWA).

The original municipal swimming pool at the city park in Tipton, Indiana was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The facility has since been replaced.

The Works Progress Administration commissioned the modernist mural in 1937 for the PWA-funded Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn, New York. Only five of the murals planned for the International Style development were ever installed. Rediscovered in the 1980's after being painted over, the five installed murals were restored and are now on loan to the Brooklyn Museum. Swing Landscape was never installed at the Williamsburg Houses and has been at the IU Art Museum (now the Sidney and Lois Eskanazi Museum of Art) since 1942. A seventh mural, Sixth Avenue El, by Francis Criss also was never installed at Williamsburg...

Some possibility the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) may have worked on this, given the proximity of the former nursery service building. However, a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Transient Camp located S of Starve-Hollow constructed the dam impounding Starve Hollow Lake, as well as the fish hatchery. Construction of the camp began in 1936 and lasted until 1937.

1937 Public Works Administration (PWA) Clubhouse, limestone (smooth) lbock const, flat 1/1 DHS windows, flat door, open entrance porch w/carved boy/girl matching columns, gable.  Some part of orginal WPA stone wall visible along Q St. 1st known as Malott's Woods or Kramer's Lots.

The area, known as Winamac Recreational Demonstration Area, was originally in the hands of the federal government. The WPA built improvements on the park between 1935 and 1942. The WPA recruited local men to improve Tippecanoe River State Park. The men initially built roads and reforested the area. The WPA constructed two group camps, a firetower, shelter houses, a gatehouse, and more. In 1943 the federal government turned the property over to Indiana to be used as a state park.

The WPA laborers completed two group camps by 1938, known as Camp Tepicon and Camp Pottawattomie. The camps were immediately occupied by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Today, the surviving group camp is known as Potawatomi. Potawatomi is a functional group camp with 43 buildings. The camp consists of rest rooms, activity cabins, sleeping cabins, a mess hall, a wash house, and more.

The building is a remnant of Camp Tepicon, a group camp constructed by WPA laborers. The dining hall is still in use and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Using a variety of native materials, the CCC built gatehouses designed to appeal to the eye and draw in visitors with hints of the delights of nature within the park. The gate house retains its orginal limestone facade, wood clapboard, and metal casement windows. Tippecanoe River State Park gatehouse was completed by WPA laborers between 1935-42. The style of the gatehouse is classified as parks rustic.

The WPA constructed firetowers on steel frameworks to help protect the new plantings and existing forests. The firetower at Tippecanoe River State Park was completed in 1940 by WPA laborers. The firetower stands around 90' tall.

The oven shelter is largely unknown to the public. The shelter contains a stone fireplace. The oven shelter is classified as parks rustic.

The shelter was completed by WPA labores in 1936. The L-shaped shelter was constructed out of local stone. The WPA also completed a comfort nearby the shelter. The comfort station is unaltered besides the handicapped access ramps that were added on the east side. The buildings are classified as parks rustic.

"Thorntown acquired a new town hall, built with labor provided by the FERA." The cornerstone was laid July 20, 1935. The building is still in use.

The Town of Leavenworth is a historic Southern Indiana river town, known for manufacturing boats and buttons. Nearly all of the homes in the town of Leavenworth, Indiana were destroyed by the Ohio River flood of 1937. Only a few brick buildings from the original town, including the former Leavenworth State Bank building and the former IOOF hall (at right in the newspaper picture of flood damage), remain in 2023. The Works Progress Administration, with assistance from other organizations such as the American Red Cross, built a new town on the bluff overlooking the original site.

The picnic shelter, commonly known as Big Log Shelter, was completed in 1936. It was started as a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) project but was abandoned in 1935. The building was then completed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The shelter has three fireplaces and is classified as parks rustic.

"Shelter houses, a saddle barn and many sandstone trail structures are the legacy of the hard working young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Camp 8, stationed at Turkey Run in 1934-1935."

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers completed five identical cabins in 1941. The cabins sit in a semi-circle in a lightly wooded area.

The Canyon shelter was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers in 1935. The style of the shelter is classified as parks rustic.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Co. 2580 began construction on the commissary. The CCC Camp was abandoned in March 1942 and the commissary was only seventy percent complete. The commissary was eventually completed by park personnel and opened to the public later that year. The commissary is now used as a nature center.

Using a variety of native materials, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built gatehouses designed to appeal to the eye and draw in visitors with hints of the delights of nature within the park. CCC workers completed Turkey Run's gatehouse in 1935. The style of the gatehouse is classified as parks rustic.

The oven shelter, commonly known as Fireplace Shelter, was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers in 1935. The style of the oven shelter is classified as parks rustic.

The oven shelter, known as the Newby Culch Shelter House, was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers in 1935. The shelter was constructed from stone and wood. The style of the shelter is classified as parks rustic.

The picnic shelter, commonly known as Middle Shelter, was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers in 1935. The style of the shelter is classified as parks rustic.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers completed the saddle barn in 1940. The style of the barn is classified as parks rustic. The barn was constructed with stone and wood.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers completed the service building in 1935. The service building is located near the park's office and remains functional. The style of the service building is classified as parks rustic.

The shelter house is known today as the Tennis Court Shelter House. It was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers in 1935.

Sunset Point was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers in 1935. The style of the decorative stone is classified as parks rustic. The stone wall overlooks Sugar Creek. Sunset Point is a good example of stone work completed throughout the park trails by CCC, consisting primarily of walls, steps, and bridges.