Herington Sites

Multiple New Deal agencies: the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) were involved in the improvement and development of the park surrounding Lake Herington in Herington, Kansas. 1934: "Herington has been allotted $6,106 from the CWA state funds for improving Lake Herington. Excavating will be done and stumps pulled around the edges." "Lake Herington was created in 1929. WPA funds were used for the construction caretaker's house and garage as well as the shelter house just up the street (N). Appropriations for the project in 1935 and 1936 exceeded $12,000, of which approx. $9,634 were for the construction of...

"The Herington Post Office was constructed by the PWA for $55,000. It was dedicated on December 12, 1935 and occupied on January 1, 1936. It contains one of six New Deal post office murals by Louis Freund. Supervising architect was Louis A. Simon. Supervising engineer was Neal A. Melick."

New Deal mural entitled "Arrival of the First Train in Herington--1885" painted by H. Louis Freund in 1937. Medium: oil on canvas Size: 11' x 5'

This WPA athletic field was originally built for Herington High School, now Herington Elementary School. "Rising from a concrete slab the field house building has random-range, quarry-faced ashlar limestone walls and a composition shingle roof. The end gables are parapeted above the rooflines. The entrance passage from Hawley Street to the field is marked by parapeted pointed arches on both sides of the building. Small 3-light metal windows with cast stone sills are placed high on the exterior walls and tucked directly below the eave line. The passage ceiling is beadboard... A handful of windows and doors have been sympathetically in-filled with...