• Library - Oakland NJ
    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
    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 and used them to construct what was then a municipal building and what is now Oakland's public library. The exact location of the old church is unknown to Living New Deal.