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  • Kings Park State Hospital Building 93 - Kings Park NY
    The massive Building 93 on the Kings Park State Hospital campus "was constructed as a WPA project in the late 1930s. The 12-story infirmary housed patients according to their mobility: the ambulatory were placed on the ground floors, semi-invalids on intermediate floors, and the bedridden on the top floors."   (Harris et al.) "As patient populations grew throughout the early part of the 20th century, the hospital itself continued to grow, and by the late 1930s the state began to build upward instead of outward. During this period, the famous 13-story Building 93 was constructed. Designed by state architect William E. Haugaard...
  • Kings Park State Hospital Improvements - Kings Park NY
    The Suffolk County News reported that the WPA engaged in "repairs and painting (interior and exterior) of Central Islip and Kings Park State Hospitals" between 1935 and 1936.
  • Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital Improvements - Brooklyn NY
    The WPA made numerous improvements to the Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital (then known as Brooklyn State Hospital) in New York City during the 1930s. Work included the construction of, and remodeling and renovation of, buildings around the campus; landscape modifications, including tree and shrub planting; the installation of fences; improvements to drainage and sewer lines; modernization of other utilities at the hospital; and other more modest improvements. The WPA made numerous improvements to the Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital (then known as Brooklyn State Hospital) in New York City during the 1930s. Work included the construction of, remodeling and renovation of, and the fu
  • Kirksville School of Osteopathy Clinic Building - Kirksville MO
    The clinic building is on the south side of the main downtown district of Kirksville, just east of the Northeast Regional Medical Center. This building was initially used for patient clinics by the osteopathic school, but now houses offices primarily.
  • Knox County Tuberculosis Hospital (demolished) - Vincennes IN
    The former Knox County Tuberculosis Hospital, in the Art Deco style, was constructed between 1936 and 1937, using funds from the Public Works Administration (PWA). It has since been demolished.
  • Knox County Tuberculosis Hospital: Director's House - Vincennes IN
    One of the few Art Deco style dwellings in the county, it was constructed with Public Works Administration (PWA) funds between 1938 and 1939, of a limestone foundation and walls. It features banded corner windows, offset entry flanking louvered windows rear entry and attached one car garage with walkout porch atop. Incredible limestone curved/carved fireplace surround and mantel.
  • Kona Hospital - Kailua-Kona HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for a hospital in Kona, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $47,700, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1069-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.
  • Kula Sanatorium - Kula HI
    Kula Sanitorium was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. The P.W.A. supplied a $227,510 grant for the project, whose total cost was $507,557. "The Kula Sanatorium, also known as Kula Hospital & Clinic, is a five-story structure situated on the lower slopes of Haleakala within the small community of Keokea. The Moderne style hospital was built in 1937 as a sanatorium intended for the treatment of tuberculosis patients. The Kula Sanatorium is historically significant for its place in the history of healthcare in Hawaii, particularly the treatment of tuberculosis. The building is architecturally significant...
  • Laguna Honda Hospital - San Francisco CA
    "Built in the 1920s, the renovated hospital campus contains more than a hundred contemporary and historical public artworks. The entryway to the main building displays five murals by WPA artist Glen Wessels. The WPA inspired three contemporary mosaic murals in the lobby depicting the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. A status of Florence Nightingale by FAP sculptor David Edstrom honors the founder of professional nursing." (Guide.)
  • Laundry Building, City Hospital Complex - St. Louis MO
    This free-standing brick façade laundry facility was completed in 1940 by the Public Works Administration to service the St. Louis City Hospital complex including the City Hospital, Malcolm Bliss Psychopathologic Institute, and clinic. It is a red brick building in the Georgian style and is along the same style as the original City Hospital Building. City Hospital closed its doors in 1985. In 2008 the building was repurposed as a private event space, retaining the building's original architectural features.
  • Laurelton Center (former) - Laurelton PA
    Laurelton State Village was formed in 1913, but several buildings were added during the Great Depression: "This project called for the construction of two cottages, buildings for administration, recreation, and hospital purposes, and improvements and extensions to the existing plant. The administration building contains in the basement a garage, psychological laboratory, a post office, and various service and storage rooms. On the first floor are board and staff rooms and a number of offices. The second and third floors are devoted to living quarters for the staff and officials. The building is reinforced concrete with exterior walls of local stone, wood trim,...
  • Leahi Home (Leahi Hospital) - Honolulu HI
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the Leahi Home in Honolulu. The PWA grant amounted to $112,500, and the work was carried out in 1938. Listed as Docket No. TH-1085-F, the project was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. Leahi Home was renamed Leahi Hospital in 1942, and it is still in service today.
  • Leon County Health Unit - Tallahassee FL
    The Leon County Health Unit was completed in 1940 as a $40,000 project jointly funded by Leon County, the City of Tallahassee, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was the first permanent home for the Leon County Health Unit, which was the oldest in the state and the first specially designed health unit built as a county WPA project in the state of Florida. The facility was a direct result of the Florida Health Unit Law of 1931, which authorized counties in Florida “to cooperate with the State Board of Health in the establishment and maintenance of full-time local health units...
  • Letchworth Village (abandoned) Development - Thiells NY
    The former, and since-abandoned, Letchworth Village institution was expanded with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $204,592 grant for the project, whose total cost was $460,431. Construction occurred between Mar. 1936 and Jul. 1937. One document summarizes the project as "HOSP ADD," Location: Pomona. PWA Docket No. NY 1250
  • Letterman General Hospital - San Francisco CA
    Painting the interior of 14 buildings and the exterior of 8 buildings. Replacement of 10,350 lineal feet of heating and hot water pipe including tanks, valves, fittings, pipe covering, and hangers in the heating and hot water distribution systems. Construct new hardwood floors in 12 buildings, and install underground electric distributing lines to replace 8,000 lineal feet of overhead lines. Landscape 8 acres.--Mooser, p. 89.
  • Levering Hospital Addition - Hannibal MO
    This was the second addition to Levering Hospital.  At the time, it ran in a straight east-west manner with the 1942 addition at the far east end of the building.  The main entrance pictured is part of the original building from 1903.
  • Lewis County Infirmary Repairs - Weston WV
    The Works Progress Administration completed improvements for the Lewis County Infirmary. According the the Charleston Gazette (1936), "The work consisted of “Repairing, renovating and Improving Lewis county infirmary.” The exact location and condition of this facility are unknown to the Living New Deal.
  • Long Island Hospital (former) Chapel Tunnel - Boston MA
    Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers constructed a tunnel at the former Long Island Hospital in Boston Harbor, connecting the primary facility with its chapel. WPA Bulletin: Previous to WPA inmates of the Long Island Hospital were unable to attend church services during inclement weather as the hospital and chapel were not connected. WPA has constructed a 210 foot tunnel from the hospital to the chapel and a wooden approach similar to the chapel design.
  • Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center Improvements - Los Angeles CA
    The Los Angeles County General Hospital (today's Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center) was constructed between 1927 and 1933. By 1939, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) had carried out improvements to the iconic Art Deco hospital in Los Angeles, CA. The hospital's construction was funded by a bond measure and voluntary tax increase. "In December 1933, the new concrete monument to public health opened to the public. The 1,680-bed facility had cost the County $12 million and encompassed more than one million square feet. The USC Keck School of Medicine, which had partnered with the County since its founding in 1885, would...
  • Lovell General Hospital (former) Improvements - Shirley MA
    The W.P.A. conducted improvement work at the grounds of the former Lovell General Hospital in Shirley, Mass. W.P.A. project details: "Improve grounds" Official Project Number: 265‐2‐14‐66 Total project cost: $48,421.00 Sponsor: Commanding General, Lovell General Hospital, U.S. Army
  • Lycoming County Home (former) - Williamsport PA
    The Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) supplied funds to construction of a new Lycoming County Home in Williamsport, PA. The exact location and building status is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Madera County Hospital - Madera CA
    The Madera County Hospital was built using Public Works Administration funds and Works Progress Administration labor. The PWA built building is now the headquarters of the Madera County Public Health Department. There was a bronze plaque inside the building where the entrance used to be indicating the date, 1935, the supervisors, and the architect Ernest J. Kump. 'It is a one-story building and provides an operating department of six rooms, an X-ray department of three rooms, a maternity unit of 10 rooms including two wards, a children's ward, a dental department of three rooms, nine men's wards, two solariums, an observation room, a...
  • Mansfield Training School and Hospital (former) Development - Mansfield CT
    America Builds: "Many schools for feeble-minded and epileptic children have been built ... At Mansfield the State of Connecticut maintains a school, which with the aid of a PWA grant of $2,576,700 provides living and hospitalization facilities, as well as farm and shop work adapted to the abilities of the patients."
  • Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital (former) Addition - Jersey City NJ
    Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, constructed 1928 to 1931, underwent a $2,000,000 extension project undertaken in part with federal Public Works Administration funds. At one point this was among—if not the single—busiest maternity hospitals in the U.S. The massive addition, identifiable as the tallest component of the building, faces Cornelison Avenue, was completed ca. 1940. Jersey City's mayor at the time, Frank Hague, named the hospital for his mother, Margaret Hague. Terry Golway of The New York Times writes that "...W.P.A. money allowed... to expand the complex into the nation’s third-largest medical facility. At Hague’s insistence, the center offered medical care...
  • Maricopa County Welfare Sanitarium (Demolished) - Tempe AZ
    The Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration built the Arizona State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Tempe, Maricopa County, in 1934. Also known as the Maricopa County Welfare Sanitarium, the facility was initially built as a 60-room sanatorium. The structure was located on the same site where today stands the Arizona State University Climatology Office, at the intersection of Curry Road and Mill Avenue. The building was designed in Moorish Revival architectural style, and it featured a dome, minarets, and arched windows. According to Jared Smith, a curator at the Tempe History Museum, the building had a large basement...
  • Marine Hospital Grounds - San Francisco CA
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to develop the grounds at San Francisco's Marine Hospital. Work summary: Widen the lawn around Building No. 9 to a 20 foot width, with a 2 to 1 slope. Excavate for and construct approximately 360 lineal feet of reinforced concrete retaining wall. Spade, loam, fertilize 60,000 square feet of lawn.--Mooser, p. 85.
  • Marine Hospital Tennis Courts - San Francisco CA
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed tennis courts at San Francisco's Marine Hospital. Work involved: Grading and construction of double tennis courts, including certain planting and shrubbery around same after construction, and in area adjacent to same. This is for the use of the personnel living on the reservation.--Mooser, p. 83.
  • Maritime Commission Hospital (former) Additions - Portland ME
    From Joseph Conforti's Creating Portland: "The Public Works Administration constructed a number of staff residences and dormitories on the campus of the existing Maritime Commission hospital, which was completed in 1859." From Joseph Conforti's Creating Portland: "The Public Works Administration funded the construction of buildings for federal, state, and local  government... Other projects in Portland included a number of staff residences and dormitories at the U.S. Maritime Commission Hospital at Martin's Point" (2007, p. 278). From the National Register of Historic Places nomination form, 1974: "Portland's Marine Hospital is a rare surviving example of a series of such buildings erected during the...
  • McClusky Health Camp - Buhl ID
    The Works Progress Administration built the McClusky Health Camp for tuberculosis victims, in Buhl, Twin Falls County.  
  • McRae Sanatorium for Negroes (former) - Alexander AR
    The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) greatly contributed to the expansion of what was then known as the McRae Memorial Tuberculosis Sanitarium . "On January 1, 1930 the McRae Sanatorium for Negroes opened with 26 patients. Within a matter of days, the waiting list numbered in the hundreds. Dr. Browne, his family, the entire staff, and all the patients lived in one large building. Finally, in 1935 Dr. Browne secured funding from the Federal Works Progress Administration to build a new multipurpose structure at the sanatorium. The building, which was named for Miss Erle Chambers, contained a modern surgical unit, dining facilities,...
  • Memorial Hospital (former) - Clovis NM
    The historic former Memorial Hospital building in Clovis, New Mexico was constructed in 1937-9 as a New Deal project. The Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) provided a $53,761 grant for the project, whose total cost was $120,834. The facility is now managed by a spiritual organization. P.W.A. Docket No. N.M. 1009
  • Miners' Hospital Improvements - Raton NM
    Regarding New Deal work at this site, Flynn writes: "Structures at this facility include a greenhouse, annex, and landscaping. The landscaping includes a rock wall and long trench on a hill side behind the building."
  • Minnesota Correctional Facility - Moose Lake MN
    America Builds: "At Moose Lake in Minnesota a PWA allotment enabled the State to build a complete new $2,181,500 unit in the State asylum system. On 1,700 acres in Carlton County there have gone up a new administration building, men's receiving hospital, women's receiving hospital, auditorium, gymnasium, service building, women's dormitory, men's dormitory, nurses' home, doctors' home, male employees' dormitory, two residences, power plant, garage and shop building, freight depot, dairy barn, horse barn, chicken house, piggery, and three cottages for farmers. This project includes landscaping, roads, and equipment for buildings and for the farm. Many of the mental hospitals are...
  • Montana State Hospital Construction - Warm Springs MT
    Montana's Big Timber Pioneer reported in 1934 that the PWA had just allotted $215,200 in loans and grants toward construction at the Montana State Hospital in "Galen" -- more accurately, Warm Springs -- in Anaconda County. It is unclear exactly which parts of today's hospital were built by the PWA.
  • Morris Memorial Hospital (former) - Culloden WV
    "In 1930 Walter T. Morris deeded his farm to the trustees of Morris Memorial Hospital. For several years the old Morris home was used to house a handful of patients. Then in July 1936 the cornerstone of the present hospital building was laid. Through the facilities of the Works Progress Administration a magnificent stone building was erected on the site of the Morris farm home and housed therein is a modern hospital equipped with every known facility."   (https://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com) "Morris Memorial Hospital, located on U.S. 60 in eastern Cabell County, served patients suffering from infantile paralysis, or polio, beginning in 1930... After Dr....
  • Mott Haven Health Center - Bronx NY
    The Mott Haven Health Center was constructed during the mid-1930s as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. It opened in 1937. "The Mott Haven Health Center, second of eight centers to be opened by the city this Summer and Fall, will be dedicated on Tuesday. The building, at 349 East 140th Street, the Bronx, cost $209,978."
  • Municipal Colony (former) Improvements - Trenton NJ
    Eight boys of the federal National Youth Administration (NYA) worked to improve the grounds at the old Trenton Municipal Colony in Hamilton Township, "a complex that included facilities to care for city dependents, including the aged, the homeless, the infirm and those suffering from contagious diseases." The Mercer County Geriatric Center now occupies the site. According to a WPA bulletin, the NYA boys were at work "painting benches, cutting grass and cleaning up the grounds."
  • Napa State Hospital - Napa CA
    The Public Works Administration funded construction work on facilities at the Napa State Hospital in Napa, CA in 1939. The hospital opened in 1875 and is still in service today.
  • National Institutes of Health Campus - Bethesda MD
    The modern campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was established at Bethesda MD during the New Deal.  It included the first laboratory of the newly-created National Cancer Institute, as well (the NCI came under the NIH in 1944). The NIH is the leading medical science agency of the United States, performing its own research and funding research at universities and hospitals around the country. The NIH was launched in 1930 as a reorganization and enhancement of government-funded medical research efforts that date back to 1887. NIH’s original location (1930-1938) was at 25th and E streets NW, Washington DC.   In...
  • National Leprosarium Infirmary (former) - Carville LA
    A federal Treasury Department-funded construction, the old National Leprosarium Infirmary building, "built in 1933, had 68 beds in two open wards--men upstairs and women downstairs. Architects provided screened porches across the front of the building to allow patients fresh air. Notice the flat roof. Originally canopies had been installed to give patients a shady spot in the non-air-conditioned building and a place to catch a breeze." In some files the facility was called "the National Home for Lepers." The contractor for infirmary construction was Murch Brothers Construction Co. of St. Louis.
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