WPA Rustic

Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20, Russellville, Arkansas

Observation Tower, Lake Bronson State Park, Kittson County, Minnesota

Grand Forks County Fairgrounds, Grand Forks, North Dakota

American Legion Hut, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

WPA Rustic architecture is an architectural style from the era of the U.S. New Deal Works Project Administration. The WPA provided funding for architects to create a variety of buildings, including amphitheaters and lodges.^[1] WPA architecture is akin to National Park Service rustic architecture.

WPA Rustic, as opposed to National Park Service Rustic as utilized in most national parks, involves more demarcation between the building and the landscape.^[2]

The term has been used by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places program to describe many buildings and structures, including American Legion meeting halls and other buildings built by the WPA in the 1930s.

Examples

Examples include the following:^[3]

Arkansas

• American Legion Hut-Des Arc
• American Legion Post No. 121
• Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20

North Dakota

• Grand Forks County Fairgrounds WPA Structures, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Oklahoma

• American Legion Hut (Edmond, Oklahoma)
• American Legion Hut (Tahlequah, Oklahoma)

See also

• PWA Moderne

References

1. Linda Flint McClelland (1998), Building the national parks: historic landscape design and construction, JHU Press, p. 420, ISBN 978-0-8018-5583-2
2. http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/wpa-rustic
3. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

External links

Media related to Buildings by the Works Progress Administration at Wikimedia Commons