Date added: September 5, 2012; Modified: July 26, 2023
The Salisbury Post Office, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was originally built in the 1920s. The U.S. Treasury commissioned an expansion of the building circa 1936 “which included a second floor and…an additional two bays on each end of… read more
Date added: November 6, 2014; Modified: June 16, 2023
The Log Lodge at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from pine and white oak logs harvested on-site. Construction of the lodge was started in 1934 by the Works Progress… read more
Date added: June 29, 2014; Modified: March 29, 2023
According to National Park Service photograph records at Antietam National Battlefield, PWA project number FP 420 (probably occurring between 1934 and 1936) was the repair of the War Correspondents Memorial Arch–a national historic monument–at what is now Gathland State Park…. read more
Date added: January 10, 2023; Modified: January 15, 2023
In 1938, the New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA) awarded a grant for the construction of additions to Bruce High School (present-day Westernport Elementary School) in Westernport, Maryland. George F. Hazelwood of Cumberland, Maryland won the contract to build the… read more
Date added: May 10, 2012; Modified: October 2, 2022
The heart of today’s Greenbelt, Maryland – popularly known as “Old Greenbelt” – is a large, planned community laid out and constructed during the New Deal. It features community facilities such as a school, theater and community center, a large… read more
Date added: August 11, 2022; Modified: August 25, 2022
In 1934, Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) railroad, “negotiated a $900,000 Public Works Administration loan which would be used to make B & O’s New York-Washington line an industry-wide proving ground for various types of lightweight… read more
Date added: July 29, 2022; Modified: July 29, 2022
In 1934, the Public Works Administration (PWA) lent $900,000 to the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad, which used it to buy 16 streamlined, lightweight train cars and a new diesel locomotive (see our project page, “Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Locomotive… read more
Date added: March 31, 2013; Modified: May 18, 2022
This is a small memorial building in Westernport, Maryland, in Philos Cemetery. A plaque on the building reads, in part: “IN MEMORIAM, LEST WE FORGET, This building is dedicated in remembrance of all those who took part in all wars… read more
Date added: June 6, 2016; Modified: May 18, 2022
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) supplied the labor to conduct repairs to the former Ellicott City Jail. Maryland WPA Project No. 181.
Date added: March 18, 2022; Modified: March 19, 2022
In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) achieved considerable infrastructural and land management improvements at the formerly-named Blackwater Migratory Bird Refuge near Cambridge Maryland. Maintained by the U.S. Biological Survey, the refuge covers an area of 8,241 acres, including marshes… read more
Date added: February 11, 2020; Modified: September 3, 2021
Under the New Deal, the defunct Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal was acquired by the federal government and restored from Georgetown in the District of Columbia (where it enters the Potomac River) to Seneca MD, a distance of 22 miles…. read more
Date added: May 11, 2012; Modified: July 24, 2021
This 16′ x 6′ oil on canvas entitled “The Old Tavern” was painted by Nicolai Cikovsky in 1937 for the former Silver Spring Post Office, under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. When the old post office… read more
Date added: May 11, 2012; Modified: July 24, 2021
The historic post office building in Silver Spring MD was constructed in 1936-37 by the Treasury Department. Its construction is sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA (Works Progress Administration). It is a typical Colonial Revival style building, often used in… read more
Date added: May 11, 2012; Modified: July 24, 2021
The historic New Deal post office building in Bethesda MD – sometimes misattributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) – was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1937. The Neo-Georgian building was constructed out of native stone trucked in from… read more
Date added: May 11, 2012; Modified: July 24, 2021
Robert F. Gates painted the mural, “Montgomery County Farm Women’s Market,” in 1939 for the Bethesda post office, which was closed in 2012. It shows a woman feeding animals next to women selling produce at the Farm Women’s Market, which… read more