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  • 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
  • Town Hall Improvements - Acton MA
    Town annual report: The following work has been done under projects, since April, 1934: Painting Outside of Town Hall, six men, 1 foreman. Total payroll: 1516.00
  • Town Hall Improvements - Amherst OH
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) provided labor to undertake numerous municipal improvements in Amherst, Ohio, among which was painting the community's historic Town Hall.
  • Town Hall Improvements - Ashland MA
    The Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) and/or Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) made repairs and other improvements to Ashland, Massachusetts's town hall in 1934. "The interior of the Town Hall has been renovated extensively, and several changes made that have been a great improvement in the building." The E.R.A. repaired/replaced the building's heating plant in 1934. Concrete stairs and walks were installed at the building soon after, and the W.P.A. painted the building's exterior in 1937.
  • Town Hall Improvements - Dover MA
    The federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) conducted "much needed repairs" to Dover Massachusetts's Town Hall in 1933. Next year the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) regraded the town hall grounds, and also painted the building.
  • Town Hall Improvements - Edwards NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement and repair work at the Town Hall in Edwards, New York.
  • Town Hall Improvements - Irvington NY
    The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Irvington, New York's town hall during the 1930s. One project, which cost $15,548 (of which the WPA contributed $11,924) was described by the WPA in its project rolls: "Work includes carpentry, plastering, painting, improving electrical system, scraping floors, varnishing," and performing other related work.
  • Town Hall Improvements - Oyster Bay NY
    The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve the Town Hall in Oyster Bay, NY during the 1930s. One modest project in 1938 involved providing painting, varnishing, and waxing improvements for this as well as other municipal buildings in the town.
  • Town Hall Painting - Chapman NE
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) painted Chapman, Nebraska's town hall.
  • Town Hall Painting - Hatfield MA
    The federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) furnished the cost of labor for the painting—interior and exterior—Hatfield, Massachusetts Town Hall. The project employed two painters between March 1 and July 15, 1934. The C.W.A. paid $203.40 for the labor for the month of March, and F.E.R.A. contributed $586.20. The Town of Hatfield supplied only $169.45, the cost of materials for the project.
  • Town Hall Parking Lot Improvements - Carver MA
    The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) worked to improve the parking lot at Town Hall in Carver, Massachusetts.
  • Town Hall Remodeling - Massena NY
    Massena's historic town hall received extensive improvements and a facelift, courtesy the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). "The interior was completely remodeled and the front changed in 1938 and 1939  under a PWA project." (Massena Observer) The PWA provided a grant of $50,152 for the project, whose total cost was $112,774. Construction occurred between Oct. 1938 and May 1939. PWA Docket No. NY W1508.
  • Town Hall Remodeling - Wakefield MA
    Built in 1871, Wakefield's Lafayette building "was used as the town's high school until 1937, when it was remodeled as part of a WPA project for municipal offices."
  • Town Hall Renovations - Kearny NJ
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) renovated Kearny Town Hall ca. 1936.
  • Town Highway Garage - Walton NY
    With the aid of the the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), a new highway garage was completed for the town of Walton in Delaware County, New York. More information is needed to determine the current status and location of this project.
  • Town House (former) Improvements - Maynard MA
    The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) conducted improvement work at what was the Town of Maynard's first owned town hall ("town house") building. The exact location and status of the facility is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Town House and Miscellaneous Municipal Improvements - Acton ME
    The Civil Works Administration funded municipal improvements in Acton ME between 1933 and 1940.  Acton is a rural town (1930 population 449) in York County situated next to the New Hampshire border.   
  • Town of Leavenworth - Leavenworth IN
    The Town of Leavenworth is a historic Southern Indiana river town, known for manufacturing boats and buttons. Nearly all of the homes in the town of Leavenworth, Indiana were destroyed by the Ohio River flood of 1937. Only a few brick buildings from the original town, including the former Leavenworth State Bank building and the former IOOF hall (at right in the newspaper picture of flood damage), remain in 2023. The Works Progress Administration, with assistance from other organizations such as the American Red Cross, built a new town on the bluff overlooking the original site.
  • Town Office Improvements - Foxboro MA
    In 1934 The Foxboro Reporter wrote that Civil Works Administration labor was used to improve and redecorate the town offices of Foxboro, Massachusetts.
  • Town Square Bandstand - Princeton MO
    WPA crews constructed this square bandstand in 1941. The bandstand has a basement with a rock foundation and façade with rock pillars. It is located in the center of the Princeton town square and is still actively being used. A rock lintel over the door to the basement has the date 1941 carved in it.
  • Trachoma Hospital (former) - Rolla MO
    The Trachoma Hospital was completed in 1939 to serve the large number of patients in the Ozark region who were infected with trachoma, the leading cause of blindness at the time. Missouri was in a belt extending from Alabama to Oklahoma where trachoma was prevalent. The predominant forms of therapy were topical medications and in severe cases surgery. Interestingly, in 1937 (before the hospital was built), there was successful treatment of trachoma with oral sulfonalimides. Although this negated the need for the hospital, the start of WWII diverted available supply of these drugs to the military. In the absence of...
  • Tracy Historical Museum - Tracy CA
    This historic post office was built by the Treasury in 1936-37. It now houses the Tracy Historical Museum.
  • Tracy Memorial Hall - Norwich VT
    Norwich, Vermont's Tracy Memorial Hall (town hall) was constructed between 1938 and 1939 as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The building is still in use today. The PWA provided a $22,090 grant toward the $49,215 total cost of the project. 1080.]
  • Traffic Court Building (demolished) Improvements - Brooklyn NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook a sizable public building improvement project in Brooklyn, New York beginning in 1935.  The project involved the "Improvement of Public Buildings and Offices" at more than 30 locations, including the no-longer-extant Traffic Court Building at the corner of Bedford Ave. and Lafayette Ave.
  • Trail Ridge Road Rock Walls - Rocky Mountain National Park CO
    Trail Ridge Road is the main route across Rocky Mountain National Park, built in 1929 to 1932 to replace the old Fall River road.  It is a marvel of highway engineering and provides stunning views of the park, particularly as it traverses the alpine regions above timber line. The road is 48 miles long and its summit near the Alpine Ranger Station is over 12,000 feet.  It is the highest continuous paved road in North America and is now a National Scenic Byway. In building the road, the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) and its contractors built several miles of low guard...
  • Trailer City - Winter Garden FL
    The accompanying colored post card shows early trailers, brick road, palm trees and Trailer City office building. Trailer City, a mobile home park, was built in the 1930s with WPA (Works Progress Administration) funds. It was a $200,000 project, the idea of Mayor George Walker. The city of Winter Garden owns the property. Trailer City was highly praised in country-wide publications. Postmark on the back of the card is 1946.
  • Transients Shelter (demolished) - Cairo IL
    Cairo, Illinois's old (and since-demolished) Marine Hospital was located between 10th and 12th St., Cedar St. and Jefferson Ave.  As part of Federal Project F-26: Improving Facilities for Sheltering Transients, the federal Civil Works Administration (CWA) rehabilitated the hospital in 1933-4 "as a shelter for whites and a two-story structure was put in shape to care for colored transients. The work involved the installation of heating and toilet facilities, painting, plastering, glazing, and general repair."
  • Treasure Island - Golden Gate International Exposition - San Francisco CA
    Below is the first official photo view of the Golden Gate International Exhibition a few years prior to its opening in 1939. And apparently based on the photo is the original WPA, 9' x 6' oil on canvas mural. Artist unknown.
  • Treasure Island Administration and Terminal Building - San Francisco CA
    'The administration and terminal building is semicircular in plan, its court having a diameter of 86 feet. It is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete and is designed to resist earthquake shocks. It has 2 main floors and 2 mezzanine floors and is provided with a radio control room and an aerial beacon on top of the structure for eventual use in connection with the airfield.'--Short and Brown, p. 639.
  • Treasure Island Airplane Hangars - San Francisco CA
    'These twin hangars were constructed for permanent use to be part of a future flying field but were made available for temporary use by the exposition. Each structure has mechanically operated doors 200 feet wide and 40 feet high with a possible increase in height to 65 feet at the centers. A one-story shop wing 40 feet wide extends along one side of each building. The two structures were completed in June 1938 at a total cost for both of $709,239.'--Short and Brown, p. 534. The west hangar was the Hall of Transportation and the east hangar was the Palace of...
  • Treasure Island Fine Arts Building - Golden Gate International Exposition - San Francisco CA
    Fine Arts Building at the Golden Gate International Exposition constructed with PWA funds.
  • Treasure Island Hall of Transportation - San Francisco CA
    This building was part of the Pan American Airways Exhibit of the Golden Gate International Exposition.
  • Treasure Island Seawall, Landscaping, and Fill - San Francisco CA
    Funds for a seawall and fill for the exposition site were provided through a $3,043,000 WPA grant. Another WPA grant of $1,296,000 provided for roadways, a causeway, trestles, landscaping, and drainage of water systems. A PWA grant of $1,711,000, matched in part by local funds, provided for paving, ferry slips and some buildings. Private funding for the exhibition were raised through private subscriptions, through the sale of bonds. A 1940 WPA publication describes the construction of Treasure Island as follows: "Dedicated November 21, 1937, Yerba Buena Shoals, more popularly known as Treasure Island, was raised from beneath the waters of the bay through the handling...
  • Tree Planting for Hillside Stabilization - Jerome AZ
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was active in Jerome, a copper mining town hit hard by the Great Depression.  The WPA hired out-of-work miners for several projects in Jerome and nearby towns. One of those projects was planting trees to stabilize the steep hillside on which the town is built (like so many western mining towns).  The favorite tree for the job was the tough, fast-growing Ailanthus, or Chinese Tree of Heaven. Since the species readily spreads by root suckers, they are all over the town to this day.  But the harsh climate of Jerome, varying from winter snow to desert heat,...
  • Tri-County Hospital (demolished) - Orangeburg SC
    The federal Public Works Administration supplied "a loan of $120,000 to be repaid over 30 years, as well as an outright grant of $108,900" to Orangeburg for the construction of what was then known as the Tri-County Hospital. Construction occurred between 1936 and 1937. The building has since been demolished. When the 'old hospital’ was new, thetandd.com: "On Wednesday, Jan. 15,1936, a simple, but impressive, groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new hospital on Carolina Avenue. ... This new facility was to be three stories high, have a capacity of 125 beds, and face north on the corner of Carolina Avenue and...
  • Tri-County Hospital Nurses' Dormitory (demolished) - Orangeburg SC
    Orangeburg, South Carolina's former Tri-County Hospital was constructed with federal Public Work Administration (PWA) funds during the Great Depression. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided support for construction of the hospital's nurses' dormitory. "In 1937 the W.P.A. approved a grant of $18,000 toward the construction of the student nurses' dormitory, which was to be built across the street. The total cost of this project was to be about $50,000. In April 1937, the voters of Orangeburg County approved a $60,000 bond referendum to help equip and furnish the new hospital, as well as pay $1,350 for the purchase of the lot...
  • Tri-State Marker: OK-KS-MO - Quapaw OK
    This small stone obelisk marks the point where Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri meet. It was erected by the National Youth Administration in 1938. It is located at the coordinates marked here, south of the Route 166 round-about at the entrance to an Oklahoma Casino, just south of the main entrance on a dirt road.
  • Triangle Homes Public Housing - Laurel MS
    Triangle Homes for African American families was constructed 1940-1941 by W. J. McGee and Son for a base bid of $325,866. Two-story row houses are still in use in the triangle formed by South Maple Street and South 4th Avenue. A grant in 2018 funds replacement units and construction has been initiated on new facilities across the street from Triangle Homes. It is unknown when the row houses will be demolished.
  • Tribal Hall of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians (Empire Community Hall) - Coos Bay OR
    Built in 1940-41 to serve as a multi-purpose community center for the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, this tribal hall is the last known intact New Deal Indian Community Building left in Oregon. Its funding came through the Works Projects Administration (WPA), the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA), and the Indian Division of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC-ID). The hall was designed to support what was then an unorganized group of Indians in southwestern Oregon in addressing economic, social, health and political needs. The functional building provided an auditorium to seat 300, a kitchen for canning...
  • Trinity County High School Gymnasium - Weaverville CA
    The gym has been torn down. While still standing, it was used by the schoolchildren and also used by the people of the community as a recreational hall.
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