Arthurdale Administration Building

Introduction

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The Administration building was constructed in 1934 to house the New Deal federal agencies which managed the newly formed Arthurdale experimental community. First was the Subsistence Homestead Division, created in August of 1933, and it ran Arthurdale until its end in 1935. Then the newly formed Resettlement Administration took over until 1937, ending just after the last houses were built. The last supervisory agency was the Farm Security Administration which was in charge until the homes and other buildings were sold into private hands in the mid-1940s.