During the Great Depression, the WPA, “Works Projects Administration” offered jobs to build and install outhouses. Not only was there a need for jobs but this also promoted rural sanitation, rural sanitation. For $17 a farm family could have a new outhouse. This cost was for materials which included cast cement floors and ventilation...labor was free. This project was offered under the administration of Franklin Roosevelt and many felt this was a wasteful project and nicknamed the privies “Eleanor’s” or “Roosevelt Monuments”.