WPA Rustic architecture is an architectural style from the era of the U.S.

New Deal The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...

Works Project Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

. The WPA provided funding for architects to create a variety of buildings, including amphitheaters and lodges. WPA architecture is akin to

National Park Service rustic National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings ...

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. The term has been used by the National Park Service's

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program to describe many buildings and structures, including

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meeting halls and other buildings built by the WPA in the 1930s.

Examples

Examples include the following:

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 County Fairgrounds WPA Structures is a collection of five structures within the Grand Forks County Fairgrounds in Grand Forks, North Dakota, that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The structures are the ...

, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Oklahoma

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

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