• High School - Hamden CT
    Located just off the Wilbur Cross Parkway, Hamden High School was constructed as a New Deal project with federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The P.W.A. supplied a $212,300 grant for the project, whose total cost was $823,508. Construction occurred between Oct. 1934 and Oct. 1935. P.W.A. Docket No. CT 1048
  • Sleeping Giant State Park Tower - Hamden CT
    "The Sleeping Giant Tower was built at the top in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as part of the Connecticut State Park and Forest Depression-Era Federal Work Relief Programs Structures."   (wikipedia.org) A tour of Sleeping Giant State Park described by The New York Times recommends: "Swing left on the blue path at Hezekiah’s Knob. Among the many highlights of this return route are the stone tower, built by the Works Progress Administration; the sheer drop from the jutting basaltic shelf of the chin; and a vertiginous scramble down the...