Works Progress Administration (WPA), Public Works Funding, Work Relief Programs, Public Works Administration (PWA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Description
Fort Douglas was developed and expanded as a consequence of investment by multiple New Deal agencies, including the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Development included construction of several buildings and improvements to the water and street systems. The CCC took over a warehouse (building 101) and added stables and quarters along both sides. The PWA funded the construction of large new barracks (building 100). The WPA added several homes for senior officers (buildings 621-625 on the central parade grounds, along De Trobriand Street) and non-commissioned officers (buildings 658, 600, 664, 665, 666 on Connor Road), along with entrance columns. The WPA also built a recreation building and swimming pool (no longer extant), bath house and a gas station (modified from an earlier stone building), and did street and water system improvements (invisible today).
The only site marked as New Deal in origin is the bath house…