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Five Suffolk County highway beautification projects, directed by the WPA, put approximately 1,000 men to work for seven months beginning April 1936. The projects included “the Smithtown-Coram road.” It is probable that Smithtown-Coram road is the former name for what… read more
Date added: March 6, 2014
Amagansett, New York’s then-new school building was constructed in 1936 with the aid of a $76,000 PWA grant. The building opened Jan. 1937 and it is still in use today.
Date added: January 18, 2014; Modified: March 5, 2014
Suffolk County News reported that between 1935 and 1936, the WPA “improved recreational facilities in [the] following State Parks [in Suffolk County]: Sunken Meadow, Heckscher, Wildwood, Orient Point and Hither Hills…” One such allotment, for $13,959.63 and reported in Nov…. read more
Date added: December 15, 2013; Modified: March 5, 2014
Referencing the WPA, an article in the Dec. 25, 1936 issue of Sayville’s Suffolk County News stated: “Various projects have been completed … and other projects, such as the storm sewer job on Greene avenue and Main street, Sayville, are… read more
Date added: December 15, 2013; Modified: March 5, 2014
The WPA approved $24,423 for improvements to the State Game Farm in Ridge. WPA labor constructed brooder houses at the site between 1935 and 1936. Current status unknown.
Date added: January 20, 2014
The WPA assisted with the replanting of trees in Southold, NY under the “technical supervision of the L. I. State Park Commission,” with a WPA grant covering the cost of the program.
Date added: January 18, 2014
Suffolk County News reported that between 1935 and 1936, the WPA “improved recreational facilities in [the] following State Parks [in Suffolk County]: Sunken Meadow, Heckscher, Wildwood, Orient Point and Hither Hills…”
Date added: January 18, 2014
Suffolk County News reported that between 1935 and 1936, the WPA “improved recreational facilities in [the] following State Parks [in Suffolk County]: Sunken Meadow, Heckscher, Wildwood, Orient Point and Hither Hills…”
Date added: January 18, 2014
According to the Southold Town website, many “roads still in use in Southold Town were built by the WPA during [the Great Depression].”
Date added: January 1, 2014
The Suffolk County News reported that between 1935 and 1936, the WPA “improved recreational facilities in [the] following State Parks [in Suffolk County]: Sunken Meadow, Heckscher, Wildwood, Orient Point and Hither Hills…”
Date added: November 29, 2012; Modified: December 18, 2013
The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “Outdoor Sports” painted by Sol Wilson in 1942.
Date added: December 15, 2013
“The original Smithtown Railroad Station was built in 1872, when the LIRR was extended to Smithtown. A new railroad station was built in 1936 while a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project was underway to eliminate the grade-level crossing on Smithtown’s… read more
Date added: October 6, 2013
“The last structure built in the Main Street Historic District, the Roxbury Central School, is architecturally and historically significant as a Tudor Revival style building that symbolizes the period of centralization in the development of the New York educational system…. read more
Date added: November 18, 2012; Modified: August 20, 2013
The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “Lake George” painted by Judson Smith in 1942.
Date added: November 26, 2012; Modified: July 9, 2013
The post office contains two Section of Fine Arts murals by Gordon Samstag titled “Law and Order in Old Scarsdale” and “Caleb Heathcote Buys the Richbell Farm.”