{{Short description|US architectural style}} {{multiple image <!-- Essential parameters --> | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 220 <!-- Image 1 --> | image1 = Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20.JPG | alt1 = | caption1 =Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20, Russellville, Arkansas <!-- Image 2 --> | image2 = Lake Bronson SP observation tower.JPG | alt2 = | caption2 = Observation Tower, Lake Bronson State Park, Kittson County, Minnesota <!-- Image 3 --> | image3 = Grand Forks County WPA Structures.jpg | alt3 = | caption3 = Grand Forks County Fairgrounds, Grand Forks, North Dakota <!-- Image 4 --> | image4 = American Legion Hut 2012-09-26 15-03-51.jpg | alt4 = | caption4 = American Legion Hut, Edmond, Oklahoma }} '''WPA Rustic architecture''' is an architectural style from the era of the U.S. New Deal Works Project Administration. The WPA provided funding for architects to create a variety of buildings, including amphitheaters and lodges.<ref>{{citation|author=Linda Flint McClelland|title=Building the national parks: historic landscape design and construction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJPkUjdBCUkC&pg=PA420|year=1998|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-5583-2|page=420}}</ref> WPA architecture is akin to National Park Service rustic architecture.
WPA Rustic, as opposed to National Park Service Rustic, as utilized in most national parks, involves more demarcation between the building and the landscape.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/wpa-rustic |access-date=2011-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629131543/http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/wpa-rustic |archive-date=2011-06-29 |url-status=dead |title=WPA Rustic | History Colorado }}</ref>
The term has been used by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places program to describe many buildings and structures, including American Legion meeting halls and other buildings built by the WPA in the 1930s.
==Examples== Examples include the following:<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}{{dead link|date=February 2016}}</ref>
===Arkansas===
*American Legion Hut-Des Arc *American Legion Post No. 121 *Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20
===Minnesota===
===North Dakota===
*Grand Forks County Fairgrounds WPA Structures, Grand Forks, North Dakota
===Oklahoma===
*American Legion Hut (Edmond, Oklahoma) *American Legion Hut (Tahlequah, Oklahoma)
==See also== * PWA Moderne
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Buildings by the Works Progress Administration}}
01 Category:American architectural styles Category:Rustic architecture in the United States Category:1930s architecture in the United States Architecture