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In early 1935, PWA crews conducted renovations and improvements to the Henry R. A. Carey School, which dated to 1896. The school closed in 2010, and in 2014 was renovated again as luxury condominiums and renamed the Carey School Residences.
Date added: November 28, 2016
The PWA funded renovations and an addition at the Sheffield School circa 1934. The school closed in 2007, and the city has explored turning the building into a high-tech innovation center called InnovateNewport with a $1.7 million federal grant, but… read more
Date added: November 28, 2016
New Deal-funded crews built an addition to the Calvert School, now Cranston Calvert Elementary. The school closed in 2013, though the building remains standing as of May 2015. The Newport Mercury, linked below, suggests that funding was through the PWA:… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014; Modified: November 28, 2016
Westerly High School was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. Construction occurred between February 1936 and October 1937. The PWA supplied a $201,807 grant; the total cost of the project was $449,156. The New Deal structure has… read more
Date added: November 28, 2016; Modified: November 28, 2016
This stone cottage was one of a few such buildings at the Sockanosset Training School, and stood until the late 2000s, when the site was redeveloped. The building appears in the FERA record group (135-SAR), but was not among those… read more
Date added: September 30, 2014; Modified: November 27, 2016
A simple brick school building. It replaced a wooden school on the same site. The architect was Albert Harkness, of Providence, who designed the nearby Chepachet School at the same time. It was later renamed the Adah S. Hawkins Elementary… read more
Date added: November 19, 2016; Modified: November 27, 2016
The waterfront area of Blackstone Park in Providence was a WPA project. However, the photograph below comes from an archive of FERA projects, indicating that agency’s potential involvement as well.
Date added: November 15, 2016; Modified: November 24, 2016
Providence’s sewage treatment facility was a PWA project. Facilities have expanded beyond the original PWA-constructed plant, but it appears to remain at the site.
Date added: January 20, 2014; Modified: November 23, 2016
“During 1934-35 the building was refurbished as a PWA project under the direction of Bristol architect Wallis E. Howe, a partner in the firm Howe & Church. The original Tuscan-columned portico was replaced with a “Gothic” design of clustered colonettes,… read more
Date added: February 15, 2014; Modified: November 22, 2016
A large, Colonial Revival building, built to house the Home Economics department of what was then known as Rhode Island State College. It is built of Westerly Granite, then the dominant building material on campus. The building, designed by Monahan… read more
Date added: November 21, 2016; Modified: November 21, 2016
The WPA built a bathing pavilion at Scarborough Beach. The precise location of the structure, if it remains, is unclear.
Date added: November 21, 2016; Modified: November 21, 2016
WPA crews built fireplaces and reproduction Narragansett Indian villages for Warwick’s 300th anniversary in 1936. Crews also built a field house in the park, but it does not appear to be extant. The precise location of fireplaces is unclear in… read more
Date added: November 21, 2016; Modified: November 21, 2016
The WPA built these two stone memorials in 1936. Whether they were both originally at this site is unclear, but they are now both on the lawn of the American Legion hall. The listed date is for the smaller of… read more
Date added: May 31, 2014; Modified: November 15, 2016
A series of stone barns arranged around a central Colonial Revival building. Designed by Edwin E. Cull, of Providence. Demolished in the early 2000s. The site is now a large parking lot.
Date added: July 31, 2016
“Attention to the NBG continued during the Great Depression when the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration funded additional workers to help care for the grounds and make improvements.”