Public Works Administration

Historical profile of Farrington Field, an art deco public stadium built in 1937–1939 with WPA federal assistance and named after Fort Worth school athletic director Evan Stanley Farrington. The facility's construction cost grew from an approved $244,000 to a final $400,000, with the first game played in September 1939.

Farrington Field hosted high school heroes, pro legends

A historical overview of the Butler Place public housing project, a New Deal-era complex for Black residents east of downtown that closed as public housing, with current hopes for commercial redevelopment on its strategically located 20-acre site.

A ghost town now, Butler Place could be next catalytic downtown redo