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    Oakland Public Library, Oakland, New Jersey

    Library – Oakland NJ

    Date added: January 10, 2015; Modified: July 19, 2023

    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a municipal building, now the town library, based on the design of—and using stones from—Oakland’s Old Ponds Church. In fact, the building’s façade was designed as an “exact replica of the old church.”

    Ponds Church Demolition – Oakland NJ

    Date added: January 10, 2015; Modified: May 2, 2015

    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished Oakland, New Jersey’s Old Ponds Church in April 1936, after the building had been deemed unsafe by local authorities. However, the WPA then salvaged “stones and hand hewn timbers” from the old church… read more