Canby Sites

"The city hall at Canby is a good example of a municipal building designed to accommodate most of the departments of a small community. The structure provides quarters for the council chamber, light and water departments, police and fire departments, and adequate storage space. The construction consists of concrete foundation walls, brick exterior walls above grade, and frame floors, partitions, and roof. All trim is wood. The building was completed in March 1937 at a construction cost of $10,850 and a project cost of $11,642."

Among the many sanitary privies constructed by Work Project Administration (WPA) employees across America from 1935-1943, two latrines remain at Mark Prairie School near Canby, Oregon. Using the concrete vault design, these simple structures represented a significant increase in public health for rural schools and other primarily rural public and private facilities with an estimated 2.3 million WPA latrines installed across the country. The WPA reworked a U.S. Public Health Service concrete vault model outhouse to simplify its production. The standardized design produced a four foot by five foot wood-frame building with wood cladding and a braced-board door.. The interior specifications...