• Camp Edwards - Cape Cod MA
    "Between 1935 and 1940, Massachusetts and the federal government, primarily using Works Project Administration funds, constructed 63 buildings (all but Buildings 102 and the old Williams Hospital have since been demolished) and two, 500-foot (150 m) wide turf runways at Otis Field. The project was the largest WPA project in state history, employing over 600 workmen. In 1938, Governor Charles F. Hurley dedicated Camp Edwards, named after the former commander of the 26th Infantry Division, Major General Clarence Edwards." (Wikipedia) WPA Bulletin: The Bourne WPA Notional Guard Camp Project is the largest undertaking of this kind in the country. It is twenty-three square...
  • Crowell-Shawme State Forest Improvements - Sandwich MA
    In late 1938 the WPA approved a project involving work to be done in the Massachusetts's Crowell-Shawme State Forest, by the town of Sandwich. The aim of the work was to "prevent disastrous fires in the forest."
  • Otis Air National Guard Base - Cape Cod MA
    "Between 1935 and 1940, Massachusetts and the federal government, primarily using Works Project Administration funds, constructed 63 buildings (all but Buildings 102 and the old Williams Hospital have since been demolished) and two, 500-foot (150 m) wide turf runways at Otis Field. The project was the largest WPA project in state history, employing over 600 workmen. In 1938, Governor Charles F. Hurley dedicated Camp Edwards, named after the former commander of the 26th Infantry Division, Major General Clarence Edwards." (Wikipedia)
  • Sandwich Town Hall Remodeling - Sandwich MA
    Sandwich, Massachusetts's historic 1834 Town Hall was remodeled with the assistance of the WPA in a project completed in 1939. (The building was extensively remodeled, again, in 2009.) Provincetown's Advocate wrote that the project was a "complete modernization" that nonetheless respected the building's past. Some improvements were: "Solid maple floors have replaced the old boards in the Selectmen's office, and walls are ivory set off by stained woodwork. A library for the selectmen has been incorporated into the new suite and a new brick vault will hold town records. Other improvements include modern lighting, replacement of the wooden foundation piles by brick...
  • WPA Sidewalks - Sandwich MA
    A WPA project in Sandwich, Massachusetts approved in late 1938 involved the construction of sidewalks "in the thickly populated sections of the town."