All Sites

This is an alphabetical list of every New Deal site on our national map, with a thumbnail photo and text.

• 5th Ave Bridge (demolished) - Evansville IN

  Constructed with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds in 1936, the 5th Avenue Bridge spanned Pigeon Creek, south of Diamond Ave, though it is no longer extant. It was a modified parker truss bridge, polygonal top chords, lacks cross diagonals in the center two bays, instead the laterals in these two bays ...
• 5th District Magistrates Court Building (former) Improvements - Brooklyn NY

  Beginning in 1935, Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook a large program of improvements to public buildings in Brooklyn, New York.  The project involved the "Improvement of Public Buildings and Offices" at more than 30 locations, including the old 5th District Magistrates' Court Building (also known as the Williamsburg Bridge Courthouse). The ...
• 5th Street Sidewalk - Clayton NM

  A WPA sidewalk imprint stamp marks the sidewalk on the west side South 5th Street, one half block up from Cedar St., across from the south end of the school campus Gymnasium building. ...
• 60th Street Elevated Tank - Newport News VA

  In 1934 the Federal Public Works Administration (PWA) provided funds to build a million-gallon water storage tank in Newport News, Virginia to replace the old water tank. The caption for the photo above reads "A million-gallon water-storage tank erected at Newport News, Virginia, to replace an old tank which had ...
• 64th Road Improvements - Middle Village NY

  The federal Work Projects Administration undertook a large road repair project starting in 1935 in the borough of Queens. The streets, many of which in New York City were still unpaved, were repaired; particular emphasis was placed on fixing washout-damaged stretches of road. Holes were filled in and the streets were ...
• 65th St. Transverse Sewers - New York NY

  The 65th St. transverse cuts across Central Park. This WPA photo shows WPA workers developing the sewer system along the transverse. ...
• 6th St. Overpass - Centralia WA

  "The overpass on 6th Street was a project funded by the state and Works Progress Administration (WPA). The overpass allowed cars and trucks to go over the railroad tracks. Centralia was an important logging and coal-mining town. The bridge improved the transportation of these products while also making the tracks ...
• 7-D School - Branson CO

  The WPA completed work on this rural school outside Branson in 1937. From the website History Colorado: The 7-D School, constructed in 1936 to 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is significant for its association with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislative agenda to rescue the United States from the ...
• 75th Street Elementary School – Los Angeles CA

  Seventy-Fifth Street Elementary, which opened in 1922, was rebuilt with a grant from the Public Works Administration (PWA). The work was done sometime in 1934-35. In January 1934, the PWA allocated $9,380,000 to the Los Angeles Unified School District for the rehabilitation of schools damaged in the severe 1933 Long Beach earthquake. ...
• 78th Street Improvements - Elmhurst NY

  The federal Work Projects Administration undertook a large road repair project starting in 1935 in the borough of Queens. The streets, many of which in New York City were still unpaved, were repaired; particular emphasis was placed on fixing washout-damaged stretches of road. Holes were filled in and the streets were ...