WPA Civic Building

ID: 2165 ~ Source: Dustin Gardner, "Race to restore 1930s-era Phoenix Sites from Ruin," Arizona Republic, May 22, 2015; accessed December 17, 2019. ~ Creator: Rob Schumacher ~ Date: 2015
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WPA Civic Building
Arizona Republic

State Fair officials planned to demolish the Civic building in 2014, until historic preservationists stepped forward to oppose their plan. They succeeded in raising money and cash support. In 2016, Governor Doug Ducey make the state fair and fairgrounds "a “jewel of the State,”

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By Max Beall
During the week of December 4, 1905, heavy rainstorms forced state officials to reschedule Arizona’s first territorial fair. Weeks later, on Christmas Day, the fair opened its doors. Governor Joseph H. Kibbey made a few opening remarks to more than…