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  • School Addition - Macclenny FL
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) constructed a school addition in Macclenny, Florida and a school facility in Glen St. Mary, in 1938-9. The PWA supplied a $300,355 grant for construction as part of one combined project, whose total cost was $670,428. The location and status of the buildings are presently unknown to Living New Deal. PWA Docket No. FL 1366
  • Florida State Tuberculosis Sanitarium (destroyed) - Orlando FL
    The former Florida State Tuberculosis Sanitarium was constructed during the last 1930s as a New Deal-aided project. The Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied a $320,000 loan and $310,890 grant for the project, whose total cost was $804,005. Construction began in 1936 and, according to a PWA document, construction continued well to 1939. (Dedication occurred well before this date. See below.) Florida Memory: "P.W.A. project, docket 1034-R. Also known as: the Central Florida Tuberculosis Hospital, the Sunland Training Center for Retarded Children, and the Sunland Hospital of Orlando. Dedicated in January 1938. The building, located at 7500 West Silver Star Road, was later...
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Bridge '1320 2070 X' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as bridge structure '1320 1938 X' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its superstructure. The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 18.4 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Bridge '1320 1938 X' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as bridge structure '1320 1938 X' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its superstructure. The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 17.0 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'J' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'J' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 14.3 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'N' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'N' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 12.1 miles.
  • Oklahoma State Route 325: Culvert 'O' - Cimarron County OK
    The Work Projects Administration (WPA) project undertook grading and culvert construction efforts in Cimarron County along Oklahoma State Route 325, between Kenton and Boise City. As of 2018 more than 20 structures along this stretch of road bear a shield-shaped WPA imprint stamp. What is known in an ODOT historic survey as structure 'O' bears a 1939 WPA stamp on its east superstructure. (The stamp is on the east side of the road, facing west.) The culvert is located on Route 325, east of Kenton, a driving distance of 11.1 miles.
  • Town Hall Development - Springfield VT
    Springfield, Vermont’s town hall underwent a development/improvement project between 1938 and 1939 as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The building is still in use today. The PWA provided 1n $18,818 grant toward the $41,725 eventual cost of the project. PWA Docket No. Vt. 1108
  • Recreation Field - Montpelier VT
    Montpelier's Recreation Field was developed as a New Deal project in 1938-9. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $45,000 grant for the project, whose total cost was listed as $100,052. PWA Docket No. Vt. 1088-F. The facility was described in Annual Reports of the City of Montpelier. The 1939 report , detailed the park development's progress at that date: The Recreational Field ... is located on the Worcester Branch road, 1 2/5 miles from the corner of Main and State Street. The project consists of a Swimming Pool approximately 350 feet long, 150 feet wide and about 11 1/2 feet deep in the...
  • Oceanic Bridge - Rumson to Middletown NJ
    "This 2,712-foot, fifty-seven-span steel double-leaf bascule bridge across the Navesink River between Rumson and Middletown was built in 1939 as one of the many Depression-era public-works projects" of the New Deal. Sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), it is the M.O. of the Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) to pay "45 percent of the construction cost" of larger projects, as was the case here. As of 2016 the bridge was slated for replacement during the 2020s.
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