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Date added: April 18, 2023; Modified: April 18, 2024
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the CCC Camp S-82, Company 1139, in Townsend, MA, starting on August 1st, 1935. Camp S-82 was located near an old granite quarry off Old Turnpike Road and the Boston and Maine Railroad tracks,… read more
Date added: August 17, 2023; Modified: December 17, 2023
Multiple New Deal work relief agencies were involved with developing the Farm Pond in Sherborn, Massachusetts, conducting work on the following: Bath House Recreational bath house facility designed and built by WPA/ERA. One-story cobblestone building with center gabled porch, shingled… read more
Date added: January 13, 2017; Modified: October 10, 2023
Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers constructed an extension to the multi-purpose former community building and Linden Fire Station in Malden, Mass. WPA Bulletin: A ward meeting place has been built, recreational quarters added and library floor space doubled by a… read more
Date added: September 20, 2023; Modified: September 27, 2023
The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-60 from Brimfield built a supervisor’s residence in the Spencer State Forest in 1937-38.
Date added: February 4, 2023; Modified: August 23, 2023
In 1934, the Public Works Administration (PWA) loaned the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company $7 million for equipment repair, new track installation, and new equipment purchases. Among the new purchases was the $250,000 Comet, a streamlined Diesel-electric… read more
Date added: August 18, 2023
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) conducted a painting project at the former Woodland School (now South Hadley Council on Aging) in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Date added: April 20, 2014; Modified: July 27, 2023
The post office contains two marble reliefs by Fortunato Tarquinia entitled “Benjamin Franklin” and “George Washington.” The project was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1936. Unlike most examples of New Deal artwork at post offices, these… read more
Date added: April 20, 2014; Modified: July 27, 2023
The Wakefield, Massachusetts post office was constructed with federal funds in 1936. It is still in use today.
Date added: April 20, 2014; Modified: July 26, 2023
Also known as the Clifton Merriman Post Office, the main post office in Cambridge, Massachusetts—originally a branch of the Boston post office—was constructed with federal funds in 1934-5. It was designed in Classical Revival style with Art Deco influences by… read more
Date added: July 23, 2013; Modified: July 26, 2023
The historic post office in Manchester, Massachusetts was built with Treasury Department funds in 1940.
Date added: December 20, 2016; Modified: July 26, 2023
Many of the projects of the New Deal involved large scale public works projects that required hundreds of workers. While this type of project was incredibly important to help alleviate widespread unemployment, there was also a belief that the United… read more
Date added: July 9, 2013; Modified: July 26, 2023
The historic East Boston Station post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1939. The post office contains New Deal murals.
Date added: December 20, 2014; Modified: July 26, 2023
The historic post office building located at 100 Center St. in Chicopee, Massachusetts was constructed by the federal Treasury Department and completed in 1935. Located in the village of Chicopee Center, this was one of two post office buildings from… read more
Date added: January 17, 2017; Modified: July 24, 2023
Formerly Burlington’s high school, what is now a municipal building at 61 Center St. was constructed as a New Deal project with Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) assistance. The P.W.A. supplied a $76,950 grant for the project, whose total cost was… read more
Date added: December 12, 2011; Modified: July 24, 2023
Boston’s Old Harbor Housing Project was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. “Built in 1936, and opened on May 1, 1938, the Old Harbor Village was the first public housing development in New… read more