Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
"'VWel are definitely in an era of building; the best kind of building-the building of great public projects for the benefit of the public and with the definite objective of building human happiness," proclaimed President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he introduced his New Deal programs of recovery and reform.1 From 1933 to 1942 such federal agencies as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Public Works Administration (PW A), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (WPA) gave a new look to the northern plains landscape by placing a federal facade on the public architecture of local communities.2
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Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:2 (Spring 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.