• Cannery (former) - Kirkland WA
    "he historic Kirkland Cannery building built during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. ... The 11,000-square-foot wooden structure was built beginning in 1935 and opened as a free public cannery in 1936." Washington State operated four cooperative canneries, all funded by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). Canneries at Kirkland and Kent served families from as far away as Everett and Tacoma. Any family with an income of less than $100 a month could bring fruit, vegetables and meat to the cannery to preserve them for the winter. The cannery kept one third of the canned...
  • Central Grade School (demolished) - Kirkland WA
    A WPA press release from Nov. 1937 reported: "More than 150 schools have been repaired and the grounds improved and landscaped , and five brand new schools in the state were erected entirely by WPA with a small percentage of sponsored funds," among which was a new school in Kirkland, Washington. The precise location and the present status of the school building are unknown to Living New Deal. One story published in 2011 states that the WPA school constructed in Kirkland no longer exists.
  • Peter Kirk Park Improvements - Kirkland WA
    One story published in 2011 states: "... the WPA also built a school in Kirkland and the old baseball field and bleachers at Peter Kirk Park, both now gone."