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Date added: January 8, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the Metuchen Borough Library in 1935-6. The library is still in use today. Quote “The Dawn,” a monthly WPA newsletter, June 1936: Laying of the cornerstone for the new Public Library in Metuchen… read more
Date added: October 6, 2013; Modified: January 8, 2015
The post office contains a 1942 Section of Fine Arts plaster relief entitled “Gardeners,” created by artist Harold Ambellan.
Date added: January 7, 2015; Modified: January 8, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed an artificial lake in Lenape Park, in Cranford / Springfield Township, New Jersey, along the Rahway River Parkway, ca. 1936.
Date added: January 7, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve what was known as the “Merchantville borough park” in Merchantville, New Jersey ca. 1936. The park in question is most likely what is known as Westwood Park.
Date added: January 7, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve Roberts Park in Collingswood, New Jersey ca. 1936.
Date added: January 7, 2015; Modified: January 7, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve Farnham Park in Camden, New Jersey ca. 1936.
Date added: January 7, 2015; Modified: January 7, 2015
The condition of Atlantic City’s primary thoroughfare Atlantic Avenue was so poor that it was occasionally referred to as “no man’s land” prior to the federal Works Progress Administration’s resurfacing of the road in 1936.
Date added: January 4, 2015; Modified: January 6, 2015
Fort Lee, New Jersey received a modern sewer system during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor. Fort Lee’s Palisadian newspaper wrote: For many years [West Coytesville] has been without the benefit of a… read more
Date added: April 13, 2014; Modified: January 6, 2015
“The WPA renovated and reconditioned sewage disposal plant here was turned over to City officials yesterday afternoon in ceremonies sponsored at the plant site. The project…included the cleaning of two large beds, totaling more than 2 acres. During the past… read more
Date added: January 5, 2015; Modified: January 6, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) supplied the labor and paid most of the project cost of laying three sewer pipelines from points in west Bayonne to points in Newark Bay beneath the low tide line. Three 12-inch cast iron… read more
Date added: January 2, 2015; Modified: January 6, 2015
“Hackettstown is receiving full value of Federal work relief money and is accomplishing a much needed improvement. The clearing and widening of the brook that flows back of Park Avenue, then through the dump meadows on Franklin Street before it… read more
Date added: October 7, 2012; Modified: January 6, 2015
The Farm Security Administration commissioned this mural in 1937-38 to commemorate the New Deal resettlement community of Jersey Homesteads, now called Roosevelt, N.J. The mural can still be seen in the Roosevelt Public School. “Ben Shahn’s mural for the community… read more
Date added: January 6, 2015
Hudson County sponsored multiple park-related federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in northern Bayonne, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Among them was construction of a 36-inch storm sewer for County Park (now the Stephen R. Gregg [County] Park), which… read more
Date added: January 5, 2015; Modified: January 5, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) repaved Hook Road in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1939. The Bayonne Times wrote: “The most important part of the [larger WPA work project] is the repaving of the Hook road, which runs from Avenue… read more
Date added: January 5, 2015; Modified: January 5, 2015
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement work on all school buildings in the city of Bayonne ca. 1939. Work on the Junior High School building included “painting, repairing, and general improvement work.”