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New Deal places in Faulkner County
8 New Deal places in Faulkner County are on the map. Schools, gyms and job training (6); CCC camps (2). 6 have a full story with sources.
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Schools, gyms and job training 6
- Guy High School Gymnasium
Local men hired with WPA funds quarried stone from nearby North Cadron Creek and hauled it here by horse-drawn wagon to build this gym, approved in 1937 and finished about 1938.
- Guy Home Economics Building
The WPA approved $4,363 in October 1935 for this Craftsman-style building for the home economics program of the newly merged Guy-Perkins school district.
- Liberty School Cafeteria
Local men built this wood-frame building at Liberty as a WPA project in 1935.
- Solomon Grove Smith--Hughes Building
After Solomon Grove's schoolhouse burned in the early 1930s, the National Youth Administration built this two-room stone building in 1938 and 1939 with Smith-Hughes vocational money.
- University of Central Arkansas: Auditorium Addition
In 1937, during the Depression, what is now the University of Central Arkansas added a 1,200-seat auditorium to its Administration Building, designed by Little Rock architects Wittenberg and Delony and paid for with federal recovery money.
- University of Central Arkansas: President’s House
The president's house at what was then Arkansas State Teachers College was one of six Public Works Administration projects on campus.
CCC camps 2
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