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Hide Search OptionsDate added: November 3, 2014
A waterworks-improvement construction project in Smithfield, Rhode Island was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $50,420 grant; the total cost of the project was $202,906. Work occurred between September 1936 and… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014; Modified: November 3, 2014
A waterworks-improvement construction project in Westerly, Rhode Island was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $50,850 grant; the total cost of the project was $104,979. Work occurred between April and December… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014
Johnston, Rhode Island’s Town Hall was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project between October 1938 and October 1939. The PWA supplied a $27,000 grant; the total cost of the project was $55,501. (PWA Docket No. RI [X]1170)
Date added: March 4, 2014; Modified: November 3, 2014
“At the southern-most tip of Aquidneck Island lies a WPA sea wall that helps protect the historic seaside city of Newport, Rhode Island. Just feet inland from the 10-foot-high concrete sea wall that runs over a mile sit some of… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014
James V. Turner Reservoir in East Providence, Rhode Island (with spillover into Seekonk, Massachusetts) was constructed with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. “Turner Reservoir was created in 1935 with the building of the Turner Dam, which… read more
Date added: October 10, 2014
Murals were covered over in the 1960s and rediscovered in 2010. Medium: oil on canvas Size: 6 murals Restoration Info: The murals were rediscovered during restoration funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2010.
Date added: September 11, 2014; Modified: September 13, 2014
“The Economic Activities of the Narragansett Planters” is a Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural, painted by Ernest Hamlin Baker, that was originally installed in the Wakefield, Rhode Island post office. The mural was relocated in 1999 and currently resides… read more
Date added: December 13, 2013; Modified: June 1, 2014
One of Rhode Island’s largest sports venues, McCoy Stadium was built between 1938 and 1940 by the City of Pawtucket. It was co-designed by Thomas E. Harding, the city engineer, and Mark Linenthal, associate engineer. Home to the Pawtucket Red… read more
Date added: May 14, 2014
A large, Art Deco high school. Now known as Charles E. Shea High School. Built from 1938 to 1939, and designed by Pawtucket architect John F. O’Malley.
Date added: May 11, 2014
A two-story International Style building, intended to house the city’s Department of Public Works, built by the WPA in 1936.
Date added: May 6, 2014; Modified: May 6, 2014
Sidewalks lining Conimicut’s Beach Avenue. Parts have been replaced and removed over the years, but WPA stamps remain.
Date added: April 3, 2014
A long, low Art Deco building constructed by the PWA in 1938-39. Originally a high school, it is now used as a junior high. The architect was Edward O. Ekman, of Providence.
Date added: February 21, 2014
In 1934 the PWA built this third floor addition to the existing high school building, which was completed in 1908. The Colonial Revival building was later occupied by the junior high, which itself later moved out. It is currently elderly… read more
Date added: February 15, 2014; Modified: February 15, 2014
Several New Deal murals were painted for URI’s Green Hall (the library and administration building), but they have since been lost.
Date added: December 15, 2013
“Dawley Memorial Park [is] a 200-acre tract of woodland [in Rhode Island] that was given to the State in 1933 by Mrs. Mary W. Dawley of the village of Wyoming. It is a memorial to her husband, Amos J. Dawley,… read more