• Dofflemeyer Point Lighthouse - Olympia WA
    "This light and fog-signal tower is typical of many of the smaller structures which have been erected on the coast line and rivers of the United States. The tower and housing for the equipment operating the fog horn is of reinforced concrete, approximately 15 by 15 feet at the base, and 35 feet high. It is surmounted by a lantern. This project was completed in March 1935 and the P.W.A allotment with which it was built included the electrification of other light towers and amounted to $13,500."
  • Port of Olympia - Olympia WA
    A WPA press release from Dec. 1937: "The Port of Olympia is making a definite bid for world trade with the new harbor facilities made possible by W.P.A. grants new totaling more than $87,296, Don G. Abel, state W.P.A. director stated today. 'With harbor facilities rapidly assuming modern form under a fourth W.P.A. project, now approximately 60 per cent completed, the largest ocean-going vessels will be able to berth, be unloaded and loaded with the same dispatch offered by other important world ports.' Abel stated. No decisive effort to improve shipping conditions at Olympia was made until recently. This took no definite trend...
  • Washington Secretary of State Office Assistance - Olympia WA
    A WPA press release from Dec. 1937 announced that $5,800 was "allotted to the Secretary of State's Office, Olympia. The Olympia project is for the purpose of folding, binding and covering pamphlets and books. The help provided the Secretary of' State will not displace any regularly employed person in that Office."
  • Water System Improvements - Olympia WA
    "Olympia will improve their water distribution system with a WPA grant of $3,777 ..."