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  • North Hall (OPSU) - Goodwell OK
    Two identical dorm buildings: Muller Hall and North Hall, were constructed at the same time as part of a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project. The P.W.A. supplied a $65,454 grant for the project, whose total cost was $145,454. North Hall was originally constructed as a men's dormitory, and it is located at the intersection of Eagle Blvd. and Aggie Ave. Specifically, it is at the northwest corner of this intersection, facing along Eagle Blvd., kitty corner from Muller Hall (which fronts the east side of Aggie Ave.) "These residence halls were completely built by hand; cement and bricks were off-loaded from trains and placed in wagons pulled by mules and...
  • Northeast High School (Academy) - Oklahoma City OK
    “Many large schools built in Oklahoma during the New Deal era are still being used. In Oklahoma City, Northeast High School occupied a gym and four classrooms added with WPA funds, after the original building of Carthage stone was made possible with a PWA grant. The school board used WPA funds for excavating to make the Northeast High School property ready for construction, and again for work around the school after it was finished. It has not been determined if any WPA labor was used in the initial building phase. Northeast High School was slated to be one of the city’s...
  • Northeast Lake - Oklahoma City OK
    "Zoo Lake was originally known as Northeast Lake. It is located in the northeast quadrant of Oklahoma City, on Grand Avenue, east of Martin Luther King Blvd. This is a 68-acre lake which is a mecca for bird watchers and fisherman... The lake and the dam were constructed by the WPA in the 1930s. The dam is located on the north side of the lake, and the coordinates shown above are from the dam. A rock spillway is located just south of the dam. In the 1940s, the lake was used for swimming, and folks would come from all over the...
  • Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College: perimeter wall - Miami OK
    A 1985 Oklahoma Landmark Inventory identifies the perimeter wall around parts of the Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College to be a Works Progress Administration (project), built in 1937-8: The campus of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College is partially encompassed by a WPA constructed rock fence. This double rock, 4 foot high and 18 inch thick fence is constructed of uncut and uncoursed native sandstone. It extends north to south some 150 feet, and east to west some 470 feet. Support piers with stone caps are situated on 49 foot centers; end columns have stone caps and are taller, up to the top of which the fence...
  • Number One Shelterbelt - Willow OK
    The first tree of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, an Austrian pine, was planted at the Ed Curtis farm near Willow, Oklahoma, on March 18, 1935. The state forester of Oklahoma, George Phillips, did the honors. The Great Plains Shelterbelt was designed to mitigate damage from the 1930s dust storms.
  • Oaks Mission School Gymnasium - Oaks OK
    The WPA constructed a stone gymnasium for the Oaks Mission School in 1937. The school was originally a Cherokee Mission school and is now a general public school. A 1985 Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory described the building in detail: "This rectangular shaped (106' x 60') gym is constructed of cut and rusticated limestone laid randomly. It has a gabled roof with stepped parapets... This Cherokee Mission school gymnasium is significant because it constituted an economically important community resource... The gym has served almost fifty years as an educational facility for primarily Cherokee Indian children of the community." This appears to be what is now...
  • Okemah Armory (former) - Okemah OK
    "Armory construction was the first major thrust of the WPA Building Program in Oklahoma. By mid-1937, 126 armories had been constructed throughout the United States, with 51 of these projects located in Oklahoma. When the WPA ended its program in 1943, 54 armories had been built and 53 others 'reconstructed' in the state. The new construction infused $3.5 million into local Oklahoma economies. Groundbreaking for the Okemah Amory took place in October of 1935, and construction proceeded through the rest of the year, through 1936, and into 1937. Due to labor shortages, material shortages, and weather-related shutdowns, a short project expanded...
  • Oklahoma City City Hall - Oklahoma City OK
    The Oklahoma City Municipal Building was constructed in 1936-37 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) and a City bond issue. "Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the State, having a population of 185,389 in 1930. The new municipal building provides quarters for all of the commissions and departments of the city government except the police department and the court which are housed in a new jail building, which was built at the same time and as part of the same P.W.A. docket. The structure is fireproof throughout with a steel and concrete frame, the exterior walls being select...
  • Oklahoma County Courthouse - Oklahoma City OK
    "The Oklahoma County Courthouse was constructed in 1936-1937 as a Public Works Administration project at a cost of $1.5 million. Designed by the well-respected firm of Layton & Forsyth, it is an Art Deco construction of Indiana limestone, with touches of the "new" material available in that day - aluminum. The south-facing main entrance has Cold Spring Minnesota granite steps and wing walls, with cast aluminum and etched glass lights atop each wing wall. The building is three stories to the east and west, and then soars in an additional ten story tower...Above these panels is an etched quotation from Abraham...
  • Oklahoma National Guard Armory - Oklahoma City OK
    "The Oklahoma National Guard Armory located west of the Capitol at 200 N. E. 23rd Street, is an armory constructed in 1938 by the WPA. In the Depression torn 1930s, the federal government's WPA project kept food on many an Oklahoma table. Unlike so many of the native sandstone armories, this one is constructed of light colored brick. Its Art Deco features are classic. A two-story office area projects from the north and west of the main drill hall. The windows have six-over-six double-hung sashes. A panel of vertically set bricks decorates the area between all the first and second story...
  • Oklahoma Panhandle State University - Goodwell OK
    Several projects on what is now the Oklahoma Panhandle State University (OPSU) campus in Goodwell, OK were enabled by multiple New Deal agencies. Among the work undertaken were the construction of two new buildings by the P.W.A., and the renovation of other facilities by the W.P.A.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325 - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. Work occurred from 1939 to 1941. As of 2018 approximately two dozen structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp, including two bridges and more than 20 culverts. The structures that have been positively identified as having New Deal significance (i.e., a WPA stamp) are posted here. They are designated as in the Oklahoma Depression-era Bridges and Road-Related Resources document cited below. From Boise City toward Kenton, the coordinates of these structures are: Bridge '1320 2070 X': 36.751637, -102.805010 Bridge...
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Bridge '1320 1938 X' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as bridge structure '1320 1938 X' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its superstructure. The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 17.0 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Bridge '1320 2070 X' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as bridge structure '1320 1938 X' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its superstructure. The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 18.4 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'CC' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'CC' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 7.4 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'DD' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'DD' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its south superstructure. (The stamp is on the south side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 7.0 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'EE' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'EE' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 6.8 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'FF' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'FF' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 6.6 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'II' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'II' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 5.6 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'J' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'J' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 14.3 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'JJ' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'JJ' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 4.9 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'M' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'M' is deemed a contributing structure, meaning ODOT believes it was constructed by the WPA. Unfortunately any WPA shield, if there was any, is gone, as the east superstructure (where you would expect to see it) has been modified / eroded / partially collapsed. The culvert is located on Route 325, east of...
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'MM' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'MM' bears a 1941 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 3.9 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'N' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'N' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 12.1 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'O' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'O' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 11.1 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'OO' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'OO' bears a 1941 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 3.3 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'P' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'P' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 10.6 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'PP' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'PP' bears a 1941 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 2.9 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'Q' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'Q' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 10.3 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'QQ' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'QQ' bears a 1941 WPA stamp on its north superstructure. (The stamp is on the north side of the road, facing south.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 2.7 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'R' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'R' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its northeast superstructure. (The stamp is on the northeast side of the road, facing southwest.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 9.4 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'T' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'T' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its northeast superstructure. (The stamp is on the northeast side of the road, facing southwest.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 9.1 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'U' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'U' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its northeast superstructure. (The stamp is on the northeast side of the road, facing southwest.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 9.0 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'V' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'V' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its northeast superstructure. (The stamp is on the northeast side of the road, facing southwest.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 8.8 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'W' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'W' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its northeast superstructure. (The stamp is on the northeast side of the road, facing southwest.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 8.5 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'X' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'X' bears a 1940 WPA stamp on its northeast superstructure. (The stamp is on the northeast side of the road, facing southwest.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 8.4 miles.
  • Okmulgee Spillway - Okmulgee OK
    Before turning off onto the main road that enters Okmulgee State Park, be sure follow state road 56 until you come to the spillway cascade. The Okmulgee Spillway, built in 1939-1940 by the Work Projects Administration, sits at the northeastern most point of the Lake Okmulgee Dam. The 40-foot-high by 250-foot- long cascade which is being nominated, is a series of upwardly rising limestone steps which buttress the original 1927-28 spiliway (built by a private contractor), on the dry side of the dam. Stone retaining walls buttress the dry side cuts that were made into the dam to accommodate the...
  • Okmulgee Stock Pavillion - Okmulgee OK
    "This building is one of nine livestock exposition-type buildings in Oklahoma, built by the WPA. The WPA completed this one-story native stone building in April 1942. It served as a livestock exposition building and was first used at the Okmulgee County Free Fair on September 23-26, 1942. This area was used as the local fairgrounds until the 1970s. An average of 84 men worked two years completing the building. Its native stone blocks are laid unevenly which speaks of the unskilled WPA labor used to construct it. The building was the first in a series of fairgrounds buildings planned, one to...
  • Old Hesper Hall (OPSU; demolished) Renovations - Goodwell OK
    The former, since-demolished Hesper Hall building at OPSU was improved with W.P.A. funds. "In 1935, the Oklahoma State Legislature allowed PAMC to purchase WPA bonds to defray the cost of renovating Hesper Hall to become the library and the museum and to build a new dormitory and to repair campus buildings." The building has long since been demolished.
  • Old Highway 81 Culvert - Duncan OK
    This culvert that was constructed by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s was part of the infrastructure of the old Highway 81. Today, the curbing on the culvert peeks out of a hedge that partially encloses Fuqua Park in Duncan, Oklahoma.The culvert curbing can be seen in two places which would have been on either side of the old highway. The original Federal Works Progress Administration shield stamp is too greatly eroded to read, and can be faintly seen in these photos.  
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