Date added: January 17, 2013; Modified: July 26, 2023
Originally constructed as Treasury Department project and completed in 1935, Philadelphia’s large Art Deco 30th St. post office served the community for many years, before being left vacant in 2006. It has since been converted into a modern office building…. read more
Date added: January 17, 2013; Modified: July 26, 2023
This red brick post office building was built in 1936 as Philadelphia’s Fairmount Station post office, and is now the Fairmount carrier annex.
Date added: October 15, 2013; Modified: July 26, 2023
What is now North East’s New Deal Borough Hall was originally built as the North East post office during the mid-1930s by the US Treasury.
Date added: December 23, 2014; Modified: July 26, 2023
The historic post office building in Milton was completed in 1934 with federal Treasury Department funds. The exterior of the post office contains several remarkable pieces of New Deal artwork.
Date added: March 18, 2018; Modified: July 24, 2023
Construction of the PennDOT facility in Montrose was undertaken as part of a sizable a New Deal project; the then-Department of Highways and Public Works Administration (PWA) provided the funds for the building’s construction in 1937, along with many similar structures in other… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014; Modified: July 24, 2023
Philadelphia’s first public housing project, the Carl Mackley Houses (also known as Juniata Park Housing), was financed by the Housing Division of the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The PWA supplied a $1,030,000 loan for the project, whose eventual total cost… read more
Date added: July 15, 2023
The historic former post office building in Morrisville, Pennsylvania houses an example of New Deal artwork: “Canal Era,” a mural by Yngve Soderberg. The work was completed and installed in 1939.
Date added: July 15, 2023
The historic former post office building in Morrisville, Pennsylvania was constructed as a New Deal project c. 1937. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is now privately owned.
Date added: July 14, 2023; Modified: July 14, 2023
Tionesta Lake and Dam were created as part of a multi-site flood control program to protect the city of Pittsburgh and Ohio Valley. Work on project began in 1937 on Tionesta Creek near its confluence with the Allegheny River. The… read more
Date added: January 20, 2013; Modified: July 14, 2023
Philadelphia’s historic Southwark Station post office contains two Section of Fine Arts murals by Robert E. Larter. The oil on canvas murals were painted in 1938 and entitled “Iron Plantation Near Southwark – 1800” and “Shipyards at Southwark – 1800.”… read more
Date added: May 13, 2014; Modified: July 14, 2023
The historic Manheim post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: the 1938 Section of Fine Arts-funded oil painting titled “The First Orchestra in America” was painted by Theresa Bernstein. The artist can be seen in a 1993 video… read more
Date added: February 24, 2015; Modified: July 3, 2023
Grove City’s Memorial Park was improved by multiple New Deal programs. “During the late 1930s, a cascading waterfall was added to the memorial as a federal Works Progress Administration project.” The exact location of the waterfall in the park… read more
Date added: June 18, 2023; Modified: June 21, 2023
The large stone amphitheater located in Riverside Park was constructed in 1934 as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) project. Sources conflict as to which agency built the structure. A stone marker erected at the site in 1990 claims it… read more
Date added: May 9, 2023; Modified: May 9, 2023
In 1940, the Works Progress Administration reconstructed Monaca’s waterworks with locally quarried stone. The project cost $50,000. A marker on the building identifies it as “W.P.A. PROJECT NO. 21284.”
Date added: April 12, 2015; Modified: April 30, 2023
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement work at the historic former Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Located at the northeast corner of Washington St. and Wayne Ave., the building presently houses the Indiana County Historical Society… read more