Originally built as a community center and a public library, this adobe style building still serves as a community center, but the public library is now the El Monte Historical Museum. It is supposed to have a beautiful reading room…. read more
Artist R. W. R. Taylor painted several panels depicting “Scenes of Indian Life” in 1937 with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. The painting is fresco on celotex. There were originally 11 panels painted for the El Monte Public… read more
6 large WPA paintings by R. W. Taylor depict scenes of daily life from American Southwest desert indian tribes. They are currently housed in the history museum which used to be the town library, also built by the New Deal…. read more
“El Monte was incorporated as a municipality in 1912. During the 1930s, the city became a vital site for the New Deal’s federal Subsistence Homestead project, a Resettlement Administration program that helped grant single-family ranch houses to qualifying applicants. Famous… read more
'The Federal Government located one of its subsistence homestead projects in the El Monte community. As a result, so much interest was aroused in the development of subsistence farms that approximately 2,000 acres of farmland was subdivided and settled by… read more
“Ruth Home – As with Chicago’s Frances Home, the mission of the Ruth Home was to provide housing, treatment, and schooling to girls and babies infected with gonorrhea. The Pacific Protective Society, which opened the home as its only facility… read more
PWA Project @1 B9 537: “El Monte Homesteads Tree Surgery 4 photographs depict work done around homestead projects. #1 “Tree surgeons at work. The equipment in the background is a portable concrete plant used by contractor on Federal Housing construction.”… read more