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Pages in category "Works Progress Administration in Arkansas" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
It is distinctive for its slightly rounded concrete roof, with a parapet rising above the front (southwest) facade. The interior has two small cells, each with a barred window, and a small vestibule area. The jail was built as a Works Progress Administration project in 1934. [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
The Horace Mann School Historic District of Norfork, Arkansas encompasses a complex of four Depression-era school buildings near the center of the community. It includes a main school building, built with Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding in 1936, a home economics building and a vocational educational building, both built in 1937 by the National Youth Administration, and the ...
A 1990 study reviewed 2,496 bridges built in Arkansas before 1941 which survived to 1990 and identified just 51 as potentially National Register-eligible. [4] By its listing, the County Road 4G bridge was deemed consistent with the standards determined in that study, as a good surviving example of its type.
The Works Progress Administration agreed to the proposal in September 1938 and construction started on the bridge a few months later. [ 5 ] 3-D artistic prototype of the new bridge with the Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge and the sharp bend in the Mississippi River in the background
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The Wortham Gymnasium was a historic athletic facility on Arkansas Highway 200 in Oak Grove, a rural community in Nevada County east of Rosston.Built in 1935 by a Works Progress Administration crew, this large gymnasium was the only surviving remnant of a major push in the 1920s and 1930s to improve the education of African Americans in Oak Grove.