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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00581
Title: WPA-built Hippodrome auditorium in Jamestown (N.D.)
Date: 8/22/1936
Creator: Bliss, Paul Southworth,--1889-1940
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 75/581, and the typed statement--"Jamestown Auditorium--A WPA project, August 22, 1936, Photo by Paul S. Bliss, Bismarck".
Summary: The auditorium in McElroy Park in Jamestown (N.D.) was a WPA project, completed in 1936, and is seen here in under construction. The windows have not been installed yet and the WPA project sign is near the front of the building. Built in the Art Deco style, the design of its facade is carried out in the straight lines, arches, and angles typical to this type of modern architecture. The roof is vaulted and the facade has three entrances, one in the center of the front wall, and the others placed in the blocks defining the corners of the front facade. Designed by noted local architect and city engineer at the time of this New Deal project, Gilbert Horton. Known as the Hippodrome, the arches are wood laminated, bolted arches, crafted from salvaged lumber from the floor of an old area flour mill. The building is 200 feet long, and 120 feet wide. The arches invented by Horton allow the span to be unsupported by interior columns.
Red ID: PH_I_39505 Image ID: 177417 Image Notes: 00075-00581

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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