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New Deal places in Pulaski County
24 New Deal places in Pulaski County are on the map. Parks and recreation (8); Courthouses, post offices and city halls (1); Schools, gyms and job training (5); Libraries, armories and community buildings (4); Water, dams and utilities (2); Roads and bridges (1); CCC camps (3). 16 have a full story with sources.
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Parks and recreation 8
- Adams Field Hangar
This hangar at Little Rock's Adams Field started out in Waynoka, Oklahoma, as a TWA hangar.
- Boyle Park
Little Rock's Boyle Park stayed mostly undeveloped until the CCC arrived in the mid-1930s.
- Fair Park Golf Course structures
Little Rock planned its first public golf course as part of Fair Park, now War Memorial Park, starting in 1924 and finished it by 1937.
- Knoop Park
Knoop Park in Little Rock was first developed in the 1930s as a WPA project.
- Lamar Porter Athletic Field
The WPA built this ballpark and its concrete grandstand for the Little Rock Boys' Club starting in 1934, and teams were playing here by 1936.
- War Memorial Park
WPA workers built War Memorial Park's original zoo buildings, golf clubhouse, bathhouse and swimming pool in the 1930s, and probably its stone walls and the 1940 bridge on Club House Drive.
- Lamar Porter Field
- Little Rock Zoo
Courthouses, post offices and city halls 1
- U.S. Post Office and Courthouse Addition
Little Rock's federal courthouse was built in 1931 and 1932, before the New Deal, but its 1941 north addition was a New Deal project.
Schools, gyms and job training 5
- Arkansas School for the Blind
The WPA built this large school in Little Rock in 1939, and it is still in use.
- Arkansas Territorial Restoration
Louise Loughborough campaigned to save a block of territorial-era buildings in Little Rock, and the WPA supplied the labor to restore them.
- William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas
The Public Works Administration paid for this building, put up from 1933 to 1935 as the University of Arkansas medical school in Little Rock.
- Black students making Braille books
- Home Economics Cottage (Joe T. Robinson School)
Libraries, armories and community buildings 4
- Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Little Rock's Museum of Fine Arts opened in MacArthur Park in 1937, built with $25,000 in WPA money that Franklin Roosevelt approved.
- Joseph Taylor Robinson Memorial Auditorium
Little Rock voters approved bonds in 1937 to match federal Public Works Administration money, and this Art Deco auditorium was dedicated in 1940.
- MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History
The Tower Building, built in 1840, is the only surviving part of the Little Rock Arsenal.
- War Memorial Golf Course Clubhouse
Water, dams and utilities 2
- Camp Robinson Improvements
The WPA ran several projects at Camp Joseph T.
- Water Treatment Plant
Little Rock's water project built a reservoir on the Saline River, a 40-mile pipeline and this brick filter plant, able to treat 15 million gallons a day.
Roads and bridges 1
- Old Arch Street Overpass
The 1,121-foot Arch Street Overpass in Little Rock was built in 1940, apparently with money from the federal Public Roads Administration.
CCC camps 3
Places come from public inventories and are being checked one by one. Know one we missed, or one that’s gone? Open it on the map and use “Been here? Is it still standing?”. Updated 2026-10-14. Printed from dylanedgell.com/arkansas-new-deal