Newport Beach Elementary School – Newport Beach CA
One of many schools rebuilt with PWA funds after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.
Newport Beach Sewage Disposal Plant – Newport Beach CA
'This treatment plant is one unit of a project which also included three pumping stations and several miles of sewers. The plant comprises the two concrete Imhoff tanks, the gas tank, and one pumping station…' (total cost: $359,472)
Newport Elementary School Murals – Newport Beach CA
Jaine Ahring created the oil-on-canvas murals “Alice in Wonderland” and “Mother Goose” in 1937. The works were created with Federal Art Project funding. In The New Deal in Orange County, California (The History Press, 2014), Charles Epting writes, “Given the scarcity… read more
Newport Harbor High School Murals – Newport Beach CA
These two mosaic murals made of unglazed colored body tile were “crafted from thousands of tiny tiles by Arthur Ames and his then-fiancee Jean Goodwin in 1937” (https://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/14/local/me-murals14). When the original building was torn down and rebuilt in 2007, these… read more