Wheeler Street Fire Hall – Tonawanda NY
Date added: July 27, 2015; Modified: April 12, 2017
WPA crews built the Wheeler Street fire hall in Tonawanda in 1938 for Niagara Hose Company #3.
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Hide Search OptionsDate added: July 27, 2015; Modified: April 12, 2017
WPA crews built the Wheeler Street fire hall in Tonawanda in 1938 for Niagara Hose Company #3.
Date added: November 26, 2012; Modified: April 11, 2017
The historic post office building in Tonawanda, New York was constructed between 1939 and 1940, and “is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department… read more
Date added: November 12, 2015; Modified: December 16, 2015
Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry states that “The majority of the original park was acquired through the purchasing of private land and County tax foreclosures (1936 & 1937)…. WPA crews built structural construction. The WPA structures included… read more
Date added: January 25, 2015
The historic post office building in Tonawanda, New York housed an example of New Deal artwork: a Symeon Shimin fresco, title unknown, showing ‘contemporary Tonawanda.’ The Section of Fine Arts-commissioned work has since been destroyed.
Date added: November 3, 2014
A storm sewer construction project in Tonawanda, New York was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $45,000 loan and $17,949 grant toward the $60,226 eventual total cost of the project. Work… read more
Date added: September 29, 2014; Modified: September 29, 2014
Sheridan Park in Tonawanda, New York was one of a number of parks in Erie County improved ca. 1936 by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA).