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The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Allapartus Road in Ossining [New Castle], New York during the 1930s. One project, which cost $10,557 (of which the WPA contributed $7,701) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “excavating,… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Marcourt Drive in Chappaqua [New Castle], New York during the 1930s. One project, which cost about $7,300 (of which the WPA contributed about $4,500) was described by the WPA in its project… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Sand Street in Port Chester, New York during the 1930s. One project, which cost $5,118 (of which the WPA contributed $2,911) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “Install drains,… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve New Rochelle’s, New York’s former Huguenot Park Library (opened 1926) during the 1930s. The library, which was used as such until 1992. The building since reopened as a children’s library. One WPA… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve New Rochelle’s, New York’s city hall during the 1930s. One project, which involved numerous municipal buildings in New Rochelle, was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “Work includes performing carpentry,… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Peekskill, New York’s Depew Park and Fort Hill Park during the 1930s. One project (involving either/both parks) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “Work includes constructing comfort station, shelter… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Peekskill, New York’s Fort Hill Park and Depew Park during the 1930s. One project (involving either/both parks) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “Work includes constructing comfort station, shelter… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Irvington, New York’s town hall during the 1930s. One project, which cost $15,548 (of which the WPA contributed $11,924) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “Work includes carpentry, plastering,… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve the Connecticut Hill State Game Management Area (then the Connecticut Hill State Game Refuge) in Newfield, New York during the 1930s. One project was described by the WPA in its project rolls:… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Gifford Road in Schenectady, New York in 1939. WPA work included “grading, surfacing, installing drainage facilities, digging ditch, changing course of creek,” and performing related tasks. Of the $7,555 total cost of… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Great Neck, New York’s Lakeville Elementary School during the late 1930s. One modest project called for general carpentry improvements and painting at this building and Great Neck’s “domestic science cottage.”
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Mitchel Field (later Mitchel Air Force Base), located in Hempstead, New York, during the 1930s and early 1940s. The WPA constructed the air base’s runways as well as a hangar addition and… read more
Date added: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Broadway in Long Beach, New York during the 1930s. One project called for the “surfacing [and] constructing sidewalks, curbs, and leaching basins.”
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration conducted some fire prevention work at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary (then a bird sanctuary) and neighboring Tobey Beach in southern Nassau County during the 1930s. WPA Official Project No. 665-21-2-440.
Date added: August 16, 2014; Modified: August 16, 2014
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Ocean Beach [Park] and many of its attendant facilities during the 1930s. One project called for the reconstruction of “life guard stations, comfort stations, locker rooms, restaurants, and fences.”