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  • Post Office - Orange MA
    The historic post office building in Orange, Massachusetts was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which opened for business in 1938, is still in use today.
  • Riverside Drive Bridge - Los Angeles CA
    "The bridge, built in 1938, is a five-span cast in place concrete T-beam structure that is 382 feet long and 56 feet wide, and accommodates four lanes of traffic and five foot sidewalks." A bronze plaque on the north end specifies that it was a Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works project number California 1461-D.  
  • Post Office Mural - Crystal Falls MI
    The oil-on-canvas mural "Extending the Frontier in Northwest Territory," painted by Allan Thomas, was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and installed in the lobby of the Crystal Falls, Michigan post office in 1938.
  • High School Addition - Hartsville SC
    The old high school in Hartsville, South Carolina featured a large New Deal-funded addition courtesy the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The exact location and current status of the site is presently unknown to Living New Deal. "The city of Hartsville, 70 miles northeast of Columbia in Darlington County, had inadequate school facilities with no means of giving courses in manual training or domestic science and no auditorium. The school authorities secured a grant from the P. W. A. and together with local funds carried out this project which included the addition of two 3-story wings to the existing high school,...
  • Parker High School Auditorium - Greenville SC
    Wikipedia: "Parker High School Auditorium is a historic high school auditorium located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1938 with funding provided by the Works Progress Administration. It is a Classical Revival style 7,500-square-foot rectangular brick building with a front gabled roof. It is the last remaining building from the largest WPA school project in South Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996."
  • National Guard Armory - Fort Mill SC
    The historic National Guard Armory in Fort Mill, South Carolina was constructed in 1938 with federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) assistance. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The armory is located along the west side of Unity St. between E. Elliott St. and E. Leroy St.
  • Post Office - Riverside NJ
    The historic post office building in Riverside, New Jersey was constructed in 1937-8 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.
  • Jackson High School Football Stadium - Jackson MO
    Completed in 1938, these concrete-based football stadium bleachers were constructed in a former quarry that furnished rock to many local New Deal projects. The stadium is still called "The Pit."
  • Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Addition - Jamaica NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration worked to conduct repairs and alterations to several civic buildings in Queens as part of a $300,464 project begun in 1935. The project included the construction of an addition to what was the Registers Building in Jamaica, NY. From Wikipedia: "Office of the Register, also known as Queens Register of Titles and Deeds Building, is a historic government building located in the Jamaica section of the New York City borough of Queens. It was built between 1895 and 1913 and is an imposing, three-story building with a limestone facade in the Neo-Italian Renaissance style. A rear five-story...
  • Forest Hills Station Post Office Sculpture - Forest Hills NY
    The terra cotta bas relief sculpture mounted above the front entrance to the Forest Hills Station post office on Queens Boulevard is titled, "The Spirit of Communication".  It was created by Sten Jacobson under the federal Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts program and installed in 1938.
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