Land Utilization Program Headquarters / Briggsdale Work Center
Weld County
Designated under the Multiple Property Documentation Form for New Deal Resources of Colorado’s Eastern Plains at the state level of significance, the LUP Headquarters, mandated by the Resettlement Administration in 1935, is significant in the area of Politics/Government for its association with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislative agenda to rescue the United States from the Great Depression.
Land Utilization Program Headquarters / Briggsdale Work Center
The Land Utilization Program characterized a nascent period of greater government involvement in agricultural practice and policy. The LUP Headquarters is also significant in the area of Conservation as a program developed to reverse the damage overgrazing, dryland farming, erosion, and dust caused to the Plains. Finally, the LUP Headquarters is significant in the area of Landscape Architecture as a rare intact demonstration landscape designed by New Deal conservationists. The period of significance begins in 1936 with the establishment of the LUP Headquarters and ends in 1941.