Huntington Sites

The Works Progress Administration completed repairs on Adams Avenue in Huntington, Cabell County.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built an elementary school near Marshall College (today Marshall University) in Huntington, Cabell County. The exact location and condition of this facility are unknown to the Living New Deal.

This federal building, formerly known as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was originally occupied in 1907. According to the General Services Administration, a three-story, 100-foot extension was constructed to the west side of the building during the New Deal. “At the date of the second addition, in 1935, the original two-story courtroom was demolished, its materials salvaged, and a new, larger courtroom was added to the west end of the second floor. The new courtroom is distinguished by oak paneled wainscoting, marble baseboards, acoustic stone walls, and a decorative plastered...

The Works Progress Administration built a brick wall for Marshall College in Huntington, Cabell County.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed repairs for the Training School Building at Marshall College (today Marshall University) in Huntington, Cabell County. The structure was built in 1937 and served as a laboratory for teachers in training. Also called Burkirk Hall, the structure currently houses administration, offices, and classrooms of the College of Education and Human Services.  

Ritter Park is a historic park founded in 1913. The Works Progress Administration carried out improvement work in the 1930s. The National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Ritter Park notes that Gus Wofford, a landscape architect who worked for the Board of Park Commissioners, is "credited with the park's two arched stone gates at the 10th Street entrance, a formal flower garden near 12th Street, footbridges crossing Four Pole Creek and related streams, tennis courts, a greenhouse, and picnic facilities. Much of this work appears to have been accomplished through the support of the federal government in the 1930s. The Works Progress...

The W.P.A. constructed sidewalks in Huntington, West Virginia.

The Works Progress Administration completed repairs on Sixteenth Street in Huntington, Cabell County.

The Works Progress Administration built storm sewers on Sixth Street in Huntington, Cabell County.

The Works Progress Administration completed repairs and improvements on Tenth Avenue in Huntington, Cabell County. The work consisted of "Relaying old pavement and constructing concrete base on Tenth avenue, Huntington.”

The Works Progress Administration built sewers from Tenth Street to Washington Avenue in Huntington, Cabell County.

The Works Progress Administration built sewers from Twenty-Eight and a Half Alley to Bungalow Avenue in Huntington, Cabell County.

The Works Progress Administration built storm sewers from Twenty-Eighth to Twenty-Third Streets in Huntington, Cabell County.

Under the authority of the Housing Act of 1937 (Wagner-Steagall Act), Washington Square (80 units) was one of three federal housing developments in Huntington opened in 1940. Washington Square was developed at the “Colored” section and recorded as such on the 1950 Sanborn Insurance Map. The project demolished substandard housing in a black community, with some businesses listed in the 1937-1939 Negro Green Book although others, such as the theater across the 8th Avenue survived the Depression and the project. The eight two-story, row house apartment buildings have flat roofs, brick exteriors, and minimal ornamentation characteristic of the emerging International Style...