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Date added: December 11, 2014; Modified: July 26, 2023
The historic main post office building in Bridgeport, Connecticut was completed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses multiple works of New Deal artwork in its lobby, is still in use today.
Date added: December 27, 2017; Modified: September 28, 2018
Re: a photograph “taken in 1944 in what is now the Popular Library of the main Burroughs-Saden Branch of the Bridgeport Public Library at Broad and State streets in downtown Bridgeport … [in what] was the library’s children’s room… The… read more
Date added: December 22, 2017
The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted a large development / improvement program at the City of Bridgeport’s municipal airport, located in Stratford. It is now known as Sikorsky Memorial Airport. Official Project Number: 165‐1‐15‐34 Total project cost: $1,053,827.00 Sponsor: City… read more
Date added: May 1, 2014; Modified: February 12, 2015
Bridgeport’s Normal School received one or more murals under the WPA’s Federal Art Project. The City Normal School was part of Grammar School No. 3, which was later renamed the Elias Howe School. The Elias Howe School still stands today,… read more
Date added: January 9, 2012; Modified: January 9, 2015
This 1934 post office contains two sets of 3-panel murals, one by Arthur Covey and the other by Robert Lambdin. All were painted in 1936. The Covey murals are entitled “Bridgeport Manufacturing.” The Lambdin murals entitled “Stagecoach and Modern Transportation”… read more