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Colorful new art invades an old, distinguised St. Paul building
On the outside, the Hamline Playground Recreation Center looks pretty much as it has since 1940 — clean modern lines, Kasota limestone facing, a cornerstone that still identifies it as a Works Progress Administration project. Inside is a different story: from Minneapolis Star Tribune Read more »
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Recreated WPA lab celebrates Angel Mounds' "Golden Age"
When the Indiana Historical Society bought the 480 acres of farmland at the heart of what is now Angel Mounds State Historic Site in 1938, few people might have imagined what it would become. The next five years would see the land worked like never befor from Courier Press Read more »
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Yesteryears (05/31/2013)
75 YEARS AGO: Childrens recreation at the Ceres City Park was under the supervision of Audrey Smith, Works Progress Administration recreational leader. Smith was supervising both boys and girls at the park on afternoons everyday except Saturdays, Sundays from Modesto Bee Read more »
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New exhibit at Middlesex County Museum explores Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration
PISCATAWAY — The newest exhibit to open at the Middlesex County Museum explores how Franklin Delano Roosevelts Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of his New Deal program, benefitted the Garden State and its workers. The Got Work? New Deal/WPA in N from MyCentralJersey.com Read more »
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Providence Classical School will need zoning variance before moving into East Clinton School
We're really delighted to have a building of our own. Built in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, East Clinton School is one of the few remaining Art Deco buildings in Huntsville. (Sarah Cole | scole@al.com) HUNTSVIL from Everything Alabama Read more »
