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New Deal Agency: Public Works Funding

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12th Street Overpass – Folsom NJ

The Bureau of Public Roads provided funds to construct an overpass carrying 12th Street over the railroad in Folsom, N.J. The project was undertaken as part of a larger grade crossing elimination initiative during that era. Living New Deal believes this structure has since been replaced…. read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

16th Street Overpass – Hastings NE

In September 1935, an enormous highway and grade crossing elimination program was approved by the state Public Works Administration (PWA) officials and was forwarded to Washington for final approval. The large number of projects would amount to a financial outlay… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

1940 Air Terminal Museum – Houston TX

Federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds enabled the construction of the old terminal at what was then known as Houston Municipal Airport. The Art Deco building at William P. Hobby Airport now serves as the 1940 Air Terminal Museum.

Project type: Airports, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

19th Street Armory – Harrisburg PA

Harrisburg’s 19th Street Armory was constructed in 1937-8 as a New Deal project. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $28,752 grant for the project, whose total cost was $89,050. PWA Docket No. PA [W]1807.

Project type: Military and Public Safety, Armories
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

21st Street Houses – Washington DC

The Alley Dwelling Authority (ADA) and the Federal Works Agency (FWA) funded the construction of the 21st Street Houses in Washington, DC in 1943. This development of 36 living units was built for African American national defense workers (Washington, DC was… read more

Project type: Public Housing, Civic Facilities
Agency: Alley Dwelling Authority (DC only), Federal Works Agency (FWA)

25th Street Houses – Washington DC

The Alley Dwelling Authority (ADA) and the Federal Works Agency (FWA) funded the construction of the 25th Street Houses in Washington, DC in 1944. This development of 40 living units was built for white national defense workers (Washington, DC was highly… read more

Project type: Public Housing, Civic Facilities
Agency: Alley Dwelling Authority (DC only), Federal Works Agency (FWA)

35th Street Houses – Washington DC

The Alley Dwelling Authority (ADA) and the Federal Works Agency (FWA) funded the construction of the 35th Street Houses in Washington, DC in 1943. This development of 75 living units was built for white national defense workers (Washington, DC was highly… read more

Project type: Public Housing, Civic Facilities
Agency: Alley Dwelling Authority (DC only), Federal Works Agency (FWA)

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… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

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… read more

Project type: Water supply, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

79th Street Grade Crossing Elimination – New York NY

The Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) provided fundings for the elimination of a grade crossing involving 79th Street along the west side of Manhattan, with the tracks then serving the New York Central railway. The funding was allocated as part of a… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Aberdeen Proving Grounds: Officers’ Quarters – Aberdeen MD

Aberdeen Proving Grounds Officers' Quarters

“This P.W.A. allotment made it possible for the Quartermaster Corps of the Army to erect 12 field officers’ quarters of the type illustrated on this page. Each building provides heater, fuel, and storerooms, and a laundry in the basement; a… read more

Project type: Military and Public Safety
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Abraham Lincoln High School – San Francisco CA

Abraham Lincoln High School

Academic unit; shop unit, 2 gyms, auditorium to be added later. 1 new building. The October 3, 1938 edition of the Daily Pacific Builder reported that $750,000 in PWA funds had been allotted for the first unit of the construction… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Acadia School (former) – Madawaska ME

The historic former Acadia School in Madawaska, Maine was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The building “began as a high school and after several years it was an elementary school. At one time it… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Ackerman High School – Ackerman MS

Ackerman High School is a 2-story Art Moderne building dating to 1941. Currently closed, the school was PWA Project Miss. 1156.

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Ada County Courthouse and Murals (former) – Boise ID

“Built in 1938-39, the Ada County Courthouse was constructed as part of the Depression-era Public Works Administration (PWA). Building the courthouse provided jobs not only for construction workers and craftsmen, but also for the artists that embellished it. The Art… read more

Project type: Art Works, Murals
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Adams Avenue Overpass – Temple TX

The Adams Avenue Overpass is a 285 foot long steel stringer bridge that takes West Adams Avenue over multiple tracks of the former Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway (now BNSF Railway) in Temple, Texas. The bridge, which replaced an… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Adams Elementary School – Logan UT

Adams Elementary School was built in 1936 by local architect K.C. Schaub, contracted by the PWA.

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Adams Hall, University of Oklahoma – Norman OK

Adams Hall was constructed as the school of business for the University of Oklahoma in 1935 by the PWA. Joseph Smay was on the architecture faculty and designed this and Richards Hall in 1935.  Included in the project is a… read more

Project type: Colleges and Universities, Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Adams St. Reconstruction – Boston MA

Adams St. in Boston, Mass. underwent reconstruction as part of a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project.

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Adams State College: Rex Center – Alamosa CO

“The Rex Activity Center is one of twelve buildings designated to Alamosa’s Historic Registry… Designed by architect William Bowman and constructed in 1938-39 as a Public Works Administration project, Rex Gym is one of the oldest buildings on campus and… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Administration Building – Novato CA

Hamilton Field Administration Building

P.W.A. Federal Project No. 487

Project type: Military and Public Safety
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Affton High School (Former) – Affton MO

Affton High School was built by the PWA in 1935-37. The school has since been sold and repurposed into an extensive senior living center (The Village at Mackenzie Place). The old high school is at the front of the complex… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Afton High School – Afton OK

Afton High School was constructed in late 1934 as a New Deal project. The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided an $18,000 loan and $7,507 grant for the project, whose total cost was $26,287. PWA Docket No. OK 1948. OKHistory: This… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Gymnasiums, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Agassiz Elementary School – San Francisco CA

  Vocational night school. Eighteen classrooms. Near high school. ‘Bids will be opened […] for constructing Agassiz elementary unit of twelve classrooms to be located at Bartlett and Twenty-second Streets. Masten and Hurd are the architects. The estimated cost is $179,000.’–The Architect… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Agricultural Engineering Building (PSU) – State College PA

Pennsylvania State University’s Ag[ricultural] Engineering building was one of a dozen buildings constructed on the campus during the Great Depression as part of a massive construction project enabled by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The building is still in use… read more

Project type: Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Agricultural Experiment Station Substation 2 – Petersburg AK

From The Fur Farms of Alaska: Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede: “In 1937, the legislature responded by appropriating $20,000 to establish an experimental fur station near Petersburg on land to be selected by a committee of three—… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Airline Drive Overpass – Houston TX

The Texas Highway Department and the Federal Works Agency Public Roads Administration built an overpass in 1941 to separate the grade of Airline Drive and the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway tracks. The overpass is currently open to traffic.

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA)

Airport Hangar (demolished) – St. Thomas VI

The federal Public Works Administration helped to provide funding for the construction of an airport hangar during the 1930s (PWA Federal Project No. 223). The airport, under the name Bourne Field, served as a military airfield and, during the early… read more

Project type: Airports, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alameda County Courthouse – Oakland CA

Alameda County courthouse is a striking example of Moderne Architecture. It consists of a large base filling a city block, a setback tower, two further stories of jail set farther back and a hipped roof with observation cupola at the… read more

Project type: Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alameda Electric Power Plant (demolished) – Alameda CA

Municipal Electric Light Plant - Alameda CA

This sub-station of the Municipal Power and Light System of the City of Alameda was constructed with the aid of the Public Works Administration (PWA). The exact date is unknown to us. The old power plant has been demolished and… read more

Project type: Electricity, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alaska Highway – Delta Junction AK

The 1,300+ mile Alaska Highway was constructed in 1942 and opened in 1943.  It was built to provide an alternate supply line to Alaska during World War II, an idea the President Roosevelt had proposed to the Canadian government in… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA), Army Corps of Engineers

Albany High School – Albany CA

Albany High School

Albany did not have a public high school until 1936; students traveled to Berkeley, Richmond or Oakland. The WPA and PWA contributed to the building of Albany High between, roughly, 1936-1941. According to the Albany Times from that period, five… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Albany Street Bridge Reconstruction – Boston MA

Albany Street Bridge Over Boston & Albany Railroad. “The city requested a grant from the Government for bridge alterations as follows: Altering and strengthening Boylston Street Bridge; rebuilding Berkeley Street Bridge and rebuilding Albany Street Bridge. The total cost of… read more

Project type: Roads, bridges, and tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Albee Avenue Overpass – Staten Island NY

The bridge carrying Albee Avenue over the newly sunken Staten Island Railway was built in 1940, as one link in a large grade crossing removal project sponsored by the Public Works Administration (PWA).

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alcatraz Prison Improvements and Guard Housing – San Francisco CA

The Public Works Administration funded improvement work at the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island. The cost of the project was $1,100,000. The funds for the modernization were earmarked through a PWA program in 1938. The modernization plans were temporarily suspended after the… read more

Project type: Military and Public Safety, Penal Facilities
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alcorn State University: Lanier Hall – Lorman MS

PWA approved project X1373 for a college dormitory for the HBCU Alcorn State University 9/16/1938. Construction began 12/18/1938 and was completed 8/19/1939. The Colonial Revival brick building is extant and remains in use. Architects Carl L. Olschner and Edgar Lucian… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
Agency: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works

Alcova Dam and Reservoir – North Platte River – Alcova WY

“The Alcova Dam is designed for storage and diversion of the river flow into an irrigation canal which irrigates the land around Caspar, Wyoming. The dam is earth fill with a rock surface on the reservoir side. Its height above… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Water supply
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Aleknagik Schoolhouse Inn – Aleknagik AK

The Public Works Administration (PWA) contributed approximately $5,400 toward the construction of the Aleknagik Schoolhouse Inn in 1938. Built as a territorial school in 1933, the facility initially consisted of a log cabin. In 1938, the PWA built a two-story structure. The… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alford St. Reconstruction – Boston MA

Alford St. in Boston, Mass. underwent reconstruction as part of a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project.

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Alhambra High School Gymnasium – Alhambra CA

On October 14, 1938, the Daily Pacific Builder reported that a PWA contract of $63,840 had been awarded for the construction of a boys' gym at Alhambra High School. The plans had been prepared by architect John Walker Smart, and… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)
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