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Date added: June 8, 2013; Modified: January 20, 2015
This former swimming pool was built in 1938 for the cost of $2,000 and at this time is filled in with rock and is a playground. The original pool buildings, however, still appear to be standing with the classic art… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
A water tank construction project in Exeter, Rhode Island was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $8,054 grant; the total cost of the project was $28,565. Work occurred between August 1935… read more
Date added: January 13, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
Funds provided by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) enabled construction of a library addition to the old Wilbur Watts High School in Burlington, New Jersey, since demolished.
Date added: November 19, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
During the Great Depression, the federal Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied a grant enabling development of the old sewage disposal plant in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The exact location and status of the building are presently unknown to Living New Deal…. read more
Date added: January 4, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
Fort Lee, New Jersey’s old West Fort Lee schoolhouse during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor. Fort Lee’s Sentinel newspaper wrote: “Parents and property owners of West Fort Lee were greatly cheered …… read more
Date added: June 8, 2010; Modified: January 20, 2015
This Hopper Street plant was built in 1937 and used until 2009 when the city’s new Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility came online. The facility was New Deal-sponsored, though which agency sponsored it is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
Date added: October 25, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
“City officials of the town of Monroe, were today advised that the Town Hall and the Library were due for remodeling to the extent of $2,400, it was learned from the office of Don G. Abel, State Administrator of the… read more
Date added: November 2, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
Oxford, Massachusetts’s old town garage was constructed with the assistance of the federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) ca. 1940. The exact location and present status of the project is unknown to Living New Deal, but it is believed that the… read more
Date added: October 11, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
Improvements, including building painting, were made to the old Millbury, Massachusetts town hall (destroyed by fire in 1971) with Federal Emergency Relief Act funds in 1933. 282 Millbury locals were given employment in 1933 as a result of the federal… read more
Date added: August 18, 2012; Modified: January 20, 2015
New Deal mural entitled “Ellsworth, Lumber Port” was painted in 1938 by Alzira Peirce for the old Ellsworth post office. It currently hangs in the city hall.
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 20, 2015
“People of the Soil” Medium: Tempera on plaster
Date added: August 22, 2012; Modified: January 20, 2015
“Mural entitled “Scenic and Historic Booneville” painted in 1943. This is one of the murals that’s title does not match it’s content. The artist had wanted to paint a minor, local Civil War skirmish–hence the title. The Section of Fine… read more
Date added: December 1, 2012; Modified: January 20, 2015
The former post office contains a 1942 Section of Fine Arts tempera mural by Cuban-born artist Carlos Lopez entitled “The Pioneering Society’s Picnic.”
Date added: January 19, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
Florida’s old John Gorrie Memorial Bridge—which carried what is now U.S. 98 over the East Bay between Apalachicola and Eastpoint—was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $1,075,000 loan and $350,929 grant for the project,… read more
Date added: January 19, 2015; Modified: January 20, 2015
Miami’s old Northwest 27th Avenue Bridge was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The bridge was completed 1939; however, it was largely replaced upon renovation during the late 1980s. Living New Deal believes the moving bridge is PWA… read more