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Hide Search OptionsDate added: March 6, 2014; Modified: January 26, 2024
The WPA contributed funds for a “handsome new building … for the purpose of sheltering the valuable equipment of the highway department of Brookhaven Town. … [It] is believed that the new structure will result in a considerable saving to… read more
Date added: December 15, 2013; Modified: January 26, 2024
A 1938 Works Progress Administration bridge on Beach Lane in Westhampton Beach was torn down and replaced in 1993. However, the old double-leaf bascule bridge’s Art Deco “command center” tower at the bridge’s northeast corner, and a similar secondary structure… read more
Date added: March 7, 2015; Modified: October 31, 2023
Rochester, New York’s Charlotte High School contains a series of murals commissioned by the federal Works Progress Administration. “The eight murals, each 19 feet tall, were painted in oil on canvas in 1942 by Carl Peters for the Works Progress… read more
Date added: October 27, 2015; Modified: October 11, 2023
During the last decade of the 1800s, John Grignola carved this granite statue of a Civil War Union soldier for Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. After years of neglect, WPA workers located the statue in the Bronx River, refurbished it, and… read more
Date added: October 15, 2018; Modified: September 4, 2023
The Downsville Central School in Downsville, New York was constructed with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $108,245 grant for the project, whose total cost was $232,607. Construction occurred between Nov. 1938 and… read more
Date added: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a drain pipe that enabled better drainage for Cottage Street. Middletown Times Herald: “Cottage street drainage will be effected by a reinforced rain pipe which will run from street southerly arid parallel with Wisner… read more
Date added: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed an eight-inch water main along “upper West Main street” in Middletown, New York.
Date added: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a six-inch water main along Ogden Street in Middletown, New York.
Date added: August 7, 2023; Modified: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a six-inch water main along Rowan Street in Middletown, New York.
Date added: August 7, 2023; Modified: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a six-inch water main along Knapp Avenue in Middletown, New York.
Date added: August 7, 2023; Modified: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a water main and a storm water sewer along Liberty Street in Middletown, New York.
Date added: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) installed a sanitary sewer along Rodman Street in Middletown, New York.
Date added: August 7, 2023; Modified: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook an extensive project in Middletown, New York to enclose sections of Draper Brook with concrete culverts.
Date added: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook a project in Middletown, New York, “grading and surfacing and resetting of curbs on Horton avenue.”
Date added: August 7, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook an extensive project in Middletown, New York to cover sections of Monhegan Brook with “attractive concrete culverts.”