Date added: October 16, 2014; Modified: October 16, 2014
Multiple New Deal agencies assisted with the construction of sidewalks in Oxford, Mass. and North Oxford, Mass. during the 1930s. One project included the construction of a sidewalk at Barber[‘s] Hollow.
Date added: October 16, 2014; Modified: October 16, 2014
Multiple federal New Deal agencies, particularly the Works Progress Administration (WPA), assisted with the construction of municipal roads in Oxford, Mass. and North Oxford, Mass. during the 1930s. The Report of the Selectman for the town for 1935 states: “…… read more
Date added: October 16, 2014
“The Webster Rock School is an historic rock Works Progress Administration school located on NC 116 in Webster, North Carolina, USA. In 1990, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It once served as Webster High School… read more
Date added: October 14, 2014; Modified: October 16, 2014
Oxford, Massachusetts’s old Woodward School received assistance from multiple New Deal programs during the 1930s. In 1933 the Civil Works Administration (CWA) graded a playground at the school and painted and decorated the building, a project which, town reports state,… read more
Date added: October 11, 2014; Modified: October 14, 2014
Improvements were made to the Central Cemetery in Millbury, Massachusetts with Federal Emergency Relief Act funds in 1933. 282 Millbury locals were given employment in 1933 as a result of the federal E.R.A. The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed… read more
Date added: October 14, 2014
Oxford, Massachusetts’s Memorial Hall (city hall) received assistance from the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s. The program provided labor for basement improvements and other repairs in 1935; other work was undertaken in 1938, 1939, and 1940.
Date added: October 14, 2014; Modified: October 14, 2014
Oxford, Massachusetts’s old Joslin School—since demolished—received assistance from numerous New Deal programs during the 1930s. In 1933 the Civil Works Administration (CWA) graded a playground at the rear of the school and built a sidewalk from the school to Main… read more
Date added: October 14, 2014; Modified: October 14, 2014
“Winch Park is the sister park to Butterworth and is located in Saxonville adjacent to the Framingham High School. It includes a baseball stadium that includes permanent bleachers on one side of the field, a basketball court, tennis courts and… read more
Date added: October 14, 2014; Modified: October 14, 2014
“Butterworth Park is located at the corner of Grant St and Arthur St. The park occupies a square block near downtown. The park has includes a baseball stadium that includes permanent bleachers on one side of the field, a basketball… read more
Date added: October 13, 2014; Modified: October 13, 2014
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a school in Kistler, Pennsylvania. The structure has since been destroyed by fire.
Date added: October 13, 2014
“Fraser Field is a baseball park in Lynn, Massachusetts that was built in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.” (Wikipedia)
Date added: March 10, 2013; Modified: October 13, 2014
The WPA and the CCC worked in Ozark National Forest, including building Lake Wedington and the surrounding recreation area and three natural stone cabins on White Rock Mountain. The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program further describes CCC activity in the area… read more
Date added: October 13, 2014; Modified: October 13, 2014
Huntington Avenue intersects but also passes under Massachusetts Avenue in Boston at Symphony Hall; the Charles H. Innes Memorial Underpass has a bronze plaques identifying it as a WPA project.
Date added: October 12, 2014
Kershaw Bridge, which spans the South Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts, carrying the traffic of Broadway, was one of multiple bridges in the city constructed with the assistance of a federal Public Works Administration grant, completed in 1939. PWA Docket No. MA… read more
Date added: October 11, 2014
Federal Emergency Relief Act funds assisted the town of Millbury in the construction of a South Main Street bridge. It is probable that the bridge spans the Blackstone River; the status of the structure is unknown to Living New Deal.