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Date added: November 17, 2012; Modified: March 2, 2021
The historic post office in downtown Great Neck, New York “was built in 1939-40 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building… read more
Date added: November 17, 2012; Modified: March 2, 2021
The front entrance of the main post office in Great Neck, New York is decorated with a New Deal-funded bas relief of an eagle and stars installed by Gaetano Cecere. The work was financed by Section of Fine Arts funding… read more
Date added: November 2, 2014; Modified: January 6, 2015
A massive sanitary sewer construction project in Great Neck, New York was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $565,000 loan and $190,067 grant; the total cost of the project was $757,638…. read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Great Neck, New York’s Lakeville Elementary School during the late 1930s. One modest project called for general carpentry improvements and painting at this building and Great Neck’s “domestic science cottage.”