Miniature Village Built By The WPA

Jim Linderman on Dull Tool Dim Bulb posted this neat item about a miniature town in Traverse City, Michigan.  The photos are from around 1940. 

During the depression . . . the Traverse City Opera House, still standing, became home for an unusual WPA project. Traverse City mayor "Con" Foster, who was formerly a circus promoter, thought up the original project to find work for carpenters who couldn't find any building the real thing, so Roosevelt's WPA coughed up the dough! Workers were hired to create miniature models of prominent actual buildings in the city. The intricate, perfect models were then installed in Clinch Park. At one time, there were over 100 buildings.