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  • City Hall (Old Post Office) - Reidsville NC
    The historic post office building in Reidsville was built with federal Treasury Department funds in 1936. The building now serves as Reidsville's city hall.
  • City Hall (old Post Office) Mural - Belmont NC
    The historic Belmont City Hall, constructed as the city's post office, houses an example of New Deal artwork. The mural "Mayor Chronicle's South Fork Boys" was completed by Peter DeAnna in 1940; the work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • City Hall and Fire Station (former) - Pinehurst NC
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) dramatically improved the former multi-purpose municipal building at 45 Community Road in Pinehurst, North Carolina. "In Pinehurst, Moore County, project No. 63-B4-5, transferred from the Civil Works Administration, has provided a combination city hall, fire station and public hall. An old community building was remodeled under this project to provide more adequate municipal facilities."
  • City Hall Mural - Reidsville NC
    The mural "Tobacco," which hangs in the finance office in Reidsville's City Hall was painted by Gordon Samstag with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds. The building was formerly the city's post office.
  • Clearmont Elementary School - Burnsville NC
    Originally constructed as a high school, what is now Clearmont Elementary School was built in 1938 with assistance from the Works Progress Administration (WPA); it was one of five schools built by the WPA in Yancey County, North Carolina.
  • Coast Guard Air Station - Elizabeth City NC
    Commissioned August 15, 1940, Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. It continues to serve and is presently the busiest such facility in the United States.
  • Community Building - Ayden NC
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) constructed the Community Building in Ayden, North Carolina, with work completed in 1935. The building is still in use.
  • Community House - Pittsboro NC
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) constructed the Community House in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The building is still in use.
  • Community House - Red Oak NC
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) constructed the Community House in Red Oak, North Carolina. The building, which is located on the south/east side of Church Street between Red Oak Blvd. and School St., is still in use.
  • County Armory (former) - Eden NC
    This WPA armory was constructed in 1939. It now houses J.R.'s Archery.
  • County Building - Plymouth NC
    The county office facility at 116 Adams Street in Plymouth, NC, was constructed as the County Agricultural Building in 1938 with the assistance of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor.
  • Cove Creek High School - Sugar Grove NC
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the stately and historic Cove Creek High School building in Sugar Grove, North Carolina. It was one of many educational facilities constructed by the WPA in Watauga County. The building features three WPA plaques (one at each entrance). Wikipedia: "It was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940–1941, and is a two-story, Collegiate Gothic style stone building. It is seven bays wide and features slightly projecting square stair towers and a crenellated roof parapet. It was designed by Clarence R. Coffey, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, and constructed by local artisans and laborers...
  • Cranberry High School Gym - Elk Park NC
    Originally a gym for Cranberry High School. Now owned by an alumni group and used for various functions. The WPA began building the gymnasium on January 27, 1937. The construction employed sixty workers and cost $12,000. On the cusp of its construction, a Johnson City, Tennessee newspaper described the planned 80’ by 120’ building as having a coach’s office, dressing rooms for girls and boys. Native stone formed the foundation and basement and stained shingles sheathed the exterior. The gymnasium was one of 277 recreational buildings constructed in North Carolina by the WPA by the spring of 1942. One year later,...
  • Croatan National Forest: Reforestation - Havelock NC
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) “planted thousands of loblolly pine seedlings” (The Natural Traveler) in the Croatan National Forest, established in 1936.
  • Dairy Research Installation Barns - Willard NC
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed barns at the dairy research installation in Willard, North Carolina. The exact location and present status of the facility is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Draper Junior High School (Former) - Eden NC
    The Draper Junior High School building was originally constructed in 1938/1939 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA), which was by then a part of the Federal Works Agency. When the Junior High School was later closed, the building served as Draper Elementary School for several decades. Draper Elementary School was closed in the mid 2010s.  The city of Draper has also been dissolved to become part of the city of Eden. Recently, the building has been used as a storage facility for Rockingham County Schools. In 2021 the City of Eden purchased the property from Rockingham County Schools. The city has...
  • Duke Park - Durham NC
    "In the early 1930s, though, Duke Park became one of several Durham parks that were redeveloped by the Civil Works Administration and Emergency Relief Administration of North Carolina as agents for the Federal Works Progress administration."
  • Durham Armory - Durham NC
    A former armory quartering the Durham National Guard, what is now the central civic center in downtown Durham, North Carolina  was constructed between 1935 and 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) It was converted to a civic center circa 1954.
  • Elementary School (former) - Boone NC
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a "two-room elementary building for Negro children in Boone," North Carolina. It was one of many educational facilities constructed by the WPA in Watauga County. A USGS map seems to show a school location in Boone in 1957 at 184 Church Street. A real estate listing shows that the building was constructed in 1937, which is consistent with the above information.
  • Fire Alarms - Lenoir NC
    Numerous municipal improvement projects were undertaken in Lenoir, North Carolina as part of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) projects during the 1930s. One project involved improving the city's fire alarm system. Exact details are unknown to Living New Deal. The PWA supplied a $18,023 loan and $7,404 grant toward the $25,635 total cost of the project. (PWA Docket No. NC 6358)
  • Fontana Dam - Fontana Dam NC
    "Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in Swain and Graham counties, North Carolina, United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to accommodate the skyrocketing electricity demands in the Tennessee Valley at the height of World War II. At 480 feet high, Fontana is the tallest dam in the Eastern United States, and at the time of its construction, it was the fourth tallest dam in the world." (Wikipedia)
  • Forest Theatre Reconstruction - Chapel Hill NC
    "The Forest Theatre is a stone amphitheater structure built into the hillside on the eastern edge of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and contiguous with Battle Park. Outdoor drama was first performed on this site in 1916 to celebrate the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death. ... Forest Theatre was rebuilt with Work Projects Administration funds in 1940 and further improved in 1948."
  • Fort Macon State Park - Atlantic Beach NC
    "During 1934-35, the Civilian Conservation Corps restored the fort and established public recreational facilities, which enabled Fort Macon State Park to officially open May 1, 1936, as North Carolina’s first functioning state park."
  • Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Restoration - Manteo NC
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) rebuilt Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island, site of the first English settlement in North America.  By the 20th century, virtually nothing remained at the site, which was known as "The Lost Colony."   The site, which was a state park at the time of the WPA work, was designated as Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in 1941 and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. A 1938 inventory of WPA achievements notes that:  "For 350 years all that remained of of Fort Roanoke, site of "The Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was...
  • Franklin County Privies - Louisburg NC
    "The Civil Works Administration (CWA) spent nearly eighteen hundred dollars building and remodeling privies at white and African American schools throughout the county in the 1930s."
  • Franklin County School Improvements - Louisburg NC
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) spent nearly eighteen hundred dollars building and remodeling privies at white and African American schools throughout the county in the 1930s. The local government contributed a portion of the nineteen hundred dollars it cost when the CWA and Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) added a room to Mitchell School in 1938. The CWA also funded a malaria control project at Edward Best School. During the period 1933 to 1939, the PWA carried out two school-building projects: construction of the Justice School and an addition to the Bunn School, at a total cost of $65,000.
  • Franklin Street Station Post Office - Chapel Hill NC
    Constructed in 1937 as the Chapel Hill's main post office, the historic Franklin Street Station post office was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in use today.
  • Franklin Street Station Post Office Mural - Chapel Hill NC
    Chapel Hill's historic Franklin Street Station Post Office houses an example of New Deal artwork: an oil-on-canvas mural entitled "Laying the Cornerstone of Old East." Painted by Dean Cornwell, the work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Golf Course - Monroe NC
    Between 1935 and 1939, the WPA constructed the first nine holes of this golf course.
  • Grade School (demolished) Improvements - Boone NC
    A grade school facility for Boone, NC at the corner of what was then the intersection of Locust Street and College Street was improved by the efforts of the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The CWA re-graded the school playground; worked on the flooring; and remodeled the school lunch room. The FERA completed the school gymnasium. The building has since been demolished.
  • Graham County Courthouse - Robbinsville NC
    The Graham County Courthouse was constructed as a WPA project between 1940 and 1942. According to the National Register of Historic Places, it was designed by the Knoxville architecture firm of Barber and McMurry, and built with stone quarried from just two miles away.
  • Granville Park - Winston-Salem NC
    "West Salem's own Granville Park has the WPA's mark in its majestic gazebo and its artful bridges."
  • Greene County Courthouse - Snow Hill NC
    "The new courthouse at Snow Hill is three stories and a basement in height, 95 by 45 feet in plan, and replaces an obsolete structure built in 1876. The basement provides two offices in addition to the necessary service rooms; the first floor houses all of the county officials; on the second floor are the courtroom and jury rooms; and the third floor is given up entirely to the jail which can house 24 prisoners. The building is fireproof throughout, the exterior walls being faced with brick, trimmed with stone. It was completed in January 1936 at a...
  • Greensboro Country Park - Greensboro NC
    The Greensboro Country Park in Greensboro NC is the city's oldest recreational park. It was built by the Public Works Administration in 1934. The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park was also developed and transferred to NPS in 1933 with a new museum (1937; longer standing) and museum exhibits by the Works Progress Administration and tour road construction by Civilian Conservation Corps.
  • Gymnasium - Elizabethtown NC
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a gymnasium in Elizabethtown, North Carolina in 1939-40. Living New Deal believes this to be the facility on King Street that now houses the Bladen County Recreation Department.
  • H.L. Trigg Building - Elizabeth City NC
    The H.L. Trigg Building, on the campus of Elizabeth City State University, was originally the G.L. Little Library and later the Thorpe Administration Building. It was built with Public Works Administration and state funds. It was dedicated in May 1939, along with Bias Hall, a women's dorm. That same year, the name of the school changed from the Elizabeth City State Normal School to Elizabeth City State Teachers College.
  • Hall of History - Winston-Salem NC
    "The new Hall of History Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been completed. It is a three-story brick structure which cost $32,000." The building was constructed with the assistance of either the federal Works Progress Admininstration (WPA) or the Public Works Administration (PWA); sources vary on the attribution. The building was an "annex" to the Moravian Boys School in Salem. It was demolished in 1985. See https://www.cityofws.org/DocumentCenter/View/3835/049---Boys-School-PDF?bidId= The only notable change to the building was an annex built by the Works Progress Administration in 1937-1938. This annex was demolished in 1985 during a restoration by Old Salem, Inc.
  • Hanes Park - Winston-Salem NC
    "The Works Progress Administration, an agency of the Federal Government, adopted as one of its projects the improvement of Hanes Park, which is a public park and playground owned by the city of Winston-Salem. Within the park is located an elementary school, the high school gymnasium, baseball diamond, a football field, a race track, bridges and walks, and other park improvements. It is used to a large extent as a playground connected with the elementary school and the Richard J. Reynolds High School. The W. P. A. project provided for improvements to the tennis courts and race track, three bridges,...
  • Hanging Rock State Park - Danbury NC
    Hanging Rock State Park was developed as a federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) project during the 1930s. "Many facilities in the park were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1935 and 1942. A concrete and earthen dam completed in 1938 impounded a 12-acre lake, and a stone bathhouse, diving tower and sandy beach also were built. Other facilities constructed by the CCC include a park road and parking area, a picnic area and shelter, and hiking trails. In 1991, the bathhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is also cited in some...
  • Harrison Auditorium, North Carolina A&T State University - Greensboro NC
    Richard B. Harrison Auditorium, part of the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, was constructed in 1939 with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration funds. The building, which has since been expanded, is still in use today. A National Register of Historic Places registration form states: "This rectangular, flat-roofed two-story building with a full basement at the rear was constructed in 1939 by the Federal Works Agency, Public Works Administration for use as the university's main auditorium. According to a lobby plaque, Leon McMinn was the architect and H. L. Coble, the contractor. The building stands close to...
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