- Central Electrical Substation (former) - Alameda CAThe Public Works Administration (PWA) funded the central electric substation for the City of Alameda, which has its own municipal electric power system. It cost over $200,000, a considerable sum at the time. It also served as the central fire alarm switching center for the city. It is a steel-reinforced concrete building in Moderne style, rather narrow and high. It has two large plaques on the front, one honoring the city's board of public works and one the PWA (which was originally called the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works). Short & Stanley-Brown (1939) provide more detail about what the building...