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  • Bellevue Magazine: Buildings and Roadway - Washington DC
    In 1940, the Washington Post reported allocation of funding to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for improvements to naval facilities in the city's southeast quadrant: "A group of 685 men working on an additional ammunition depot and buildings for the United States Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue, a naval torpedo station in Alexandria, Va., and storage facilities at the Navy Yard proper for ordnance and improvement of all utility facilities. Cost, $400,000." In 1942, the Washington Post reported on cuts to WPA funding that were affecting military projects, but noted roadway improvements and new building construction at the Bellevue Magazine naval facility...
  • Gallinger Municipal Hospital Improvements (demolished) - Washington DC
    The original Gallinger Hospital dates back to 1846, when the hospital was first located on the banks of the Anacostia River. The hospital moved to this site during the Civil War, with frame buildings meant to house wounded soldiers and more structures were added in 1923.  The hospital was abandoned in 1929, but the Works Progress Administration (WPA) rehabilitated the old complex in 1935-1936 for use as tuberculosis, child disability, psychiatric, and venereal disease wards. Work: A Journal of Progress reported: "The 45 buildings at Gallinger Hospital cover 65 acres. Under current appropriations funds have been allotted to permit the hiring of...
  • Patapsco Valley State Park - Ellicott City MD
    "Conservation efforts began in the river valley in 1907 when the Patapsco State Forest Reserve was established. During the Depression years of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) planted trees and built trails, picnic areas, campsites and handsome cut-stone pavilions to improve what had by then become "Patapsco State Park". Company 356 of the Civilian Conservation Corps made its encampment near Lost Lake at Camp Tydings in the Avalon Area. The CCC built the stone picnic shelters in Orange Grove and Glen Artney (not visible from the river). The CCC was also responsible for planting trees in...
  • Udall Department of the Interior Building: Jamieson Mural - Washington DC
    The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC by some of the finest American artists of the time. Mitchell Jamieson's painting, "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," depicts the  April 9, 1939 Marian Anderson concert at the Lincoln Memorial.  That concert came about after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Anderson to sing before an integrated audience in Constitution Hall.  That incident infuriated many people, including Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who arranged for a public concert...
  • Post Office (former) Relief - Miamisburg OH
    The historic New Deal Miamisburg post office building houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Indian and Trader," a 1942 wood relief by Leo Schulemowitz. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office - Wrangell AK
    The historic U.S. Post Office and Customs House in Wrangell, Alaska was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1942, houses an example of New Deal artwork and is still in use today.
  • WPA Road Bridge - Alpena AR
    The Work Projects Administration constructed a bridge over Long Creek outside Alpena, Arkansas, on what is known as WPA Road, in 1942.
  • Post Office - Little Valley NY
    The historic post office in Little Valley, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1942, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Gloversville NY
    The historic post office in Gloversville, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1942, is still in use today.
  • Municipal Improvements - Portsmouth NH
    A significant amount of useful employment was provided thanks to the New Deal in this port city which dates back to the original settlements in the early 1600's and whose shipyards have played a key part in every conflict our nations history. Only 1933 to '36 and 1942 town reports were available. 1933 "The City received funds from the local Unemployment Committee, the State of N. H. Highway Department, the State of N. H. Relief Administration, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation via the State of N. H., the Civil Works Administration via the State of N. H., the Unemployment Relief Construction, and various...
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