• Federal Courthouse - Kalamazoo MI
    Constructed by the Treasury Department as a federal post office and courthouse in 1938-39. The building is still a functioning courthouse.
  • Fountain of the Pioneers (removed) - Kalamazoo MI
    Kalamazoo's Bronson Park featured an Art Deco-style fountain built with help from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The fountain was located toward the east side of the park. Kalamazoo Business and Professional Women's Club held a competition, awarding the first place $250 prize to Marcelline Gougler, University of Illinois art instructor who had studied under well-known sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, designer of Pavilions at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Center of Progress and student of Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore sculptor. Iannelli was brought in to provide engineering and later Gougler, ceded the project to him. The fountain depicts a westward facing settler standing...
  • Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office - Kalamazoo MI
    The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office was built in 1937 in Kalamazoo, MI with New Deal funds. 
  • Milham Park Golf Course - Kalamazoo MI
    The second nine holes of the Milham Park Golf Course in Kalamazoo, Michigan, were constructed as a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. From the Milham Park website: "The course is considered to be one of the best-conditioned municipal courses anywhere, and regularly hosts city and county tournaments.  The first nine holes at were completed in 1931 and turned over to the KMGA for operation and maintenance. Robert Millar was the first golf professional at Milham Park.  The second nine holes were built as a WPA-assisted project and put into play in June, 1936." Built at the depth of the...
  • Red Arrow Golf Course - Kalamazoo MI
    The WPA constructed this nine hole golf course in Kalamazoo in 1937. From the Kalamazoo Municipal Golf Association: “Red Arrow is a downtown community greenspace established in 1937 as part of the WPA’s Depression reconstruction efforts when workmen earned $15/week, although the first City Commission began acquiring land along the south bank of the river in 1885. Later foresight by succeeding commissions and the demise of the Michigan Buggy Co. in the 1920’s added remaining acreage. Aerial mapping now shows a green triangle of city parkland, forever commercially undevelopable to serve recreation needs of residents, organizations, and businesses. What began...
  • Western Michigan University: Speech and Hearing Building - Kalamazoo MI
    Western Michigan University's Speech and Hearing Building, originally the Health and Personnel Building, was constructed during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) grant money (PWA Docket No. 1825). The PWA supplied a grant of $77,725; the total cost of the project was $165,681. Work occurred between 1938 and 1939. "Western still had no dormitories, so it was decided to build a combination Union building and girls' dormitory, which was finished by the fall of 1938 and named Walwood Hall. A men's dormitory, Vandercook Hall, was also built plus a student health and personnel building. Both of...
  • Western Michigan University: Vandercook Hall - Kalamazoo MI
    Western Michigan University's Vandercook Hall was constructed during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) grant money (PWA Docket No. 1590). The PWA supplied a grant of $128,160; work occurred between 1938 and 1939. "Western still had no dormitories, so it was decided to build a combination Union building and girls' dormitory, which was finished by the fall of 1938 and named Walwood Hall. A men's dormitory, Vandercook Hall, was also built plus a student health and personnel building. Both of these were partly built with Federal money as P.W.A. projects." (Yearbook)
  • Western Michigan University: Walwood Hall - Kalamazoo MI
    Western Michigan University's Walwood Hall was constructed during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) grant money (PWA Docket No. 1590). The PWA supplied a grant of $128,160; work occurred between 1938 and 1939. "Western still had no dormitories, so it was decided to build a combination Union building and girls' dormitory, which was finished by the fall of 1938 and named Walwood Hall. A men's dormitory, Vandercook Hall, was also built plus a student health and personnel building. Both of these were partly built with Federal money as P.W.A. projects." (Yearbook)