The Springville Museum of Art is Utah’s oldest museum for the visual fine arts, and a very late example of Spanish Revival civic architecture: it was completed by the Works Progress Administration only in 1937. The WPA, whose aim was to employ the jobless on useful public projects, was founded in 1935 as part of the Roosevelt administration’s New Deal package of Depression-relief measures. Before its abolition in 1943, WPA workers would construct some 116,000 buildings nationwide, most of them in the futuristic Art Deco-based variant known as Streamline Moderne. The museum, designed by Claud S. Ashworth, is a relatively rare example of WPA work in a Spanish Revival vein.