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“The Alex Public School (pronounced Elic), is a red brick one-story T-shaped building, with its main entrance in the north intersection of the T. This entrance has new aluminum and glass double doors with two concrete steps. The doors are... read more

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

The original school was built in 1912, and then in 1937, the WPA built an auditorium and gym. According to a 1987 survey, “Gym was added to original school, which no longer exists. Newer school buildings added in 1940s changed... read more

The federal Treasury Department funded the construction of a post office building in Union City, Pennsylvania at 11 E. High Street, ca. 1938. While the building has since been demolished a relief sculpture created for the lobby has been relocated... read more

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.

What was then Stout Field was developed as part of a massive New Deal project, with funds and labor provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It is sometimes difficult, from sources, to differentiate work done at this facility and... read more

A community center at First Avenue and Franklin St. in Evansville, Indiana, which has since been torn down, was constructed with funds and labor provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The facility was also home to a WPA sewing... read more

The library was completed in 1936 with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It has since been demolished.

After the Ohio River flood, in 1937 the Lawrenceburg public library—along with libraries in Aurora, Jeffersonville, and New Albany—were furnished with materials and labor by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in order to get facilities back in “good condition.” This... read more

Researcher Frank da Cruz makes a convincing argument that this former playground was built with New Deal funds: “According to a present-day NYC Parks Department web page, ‘This property, bounded by East 146th Street, Walton Avenue, and the Grand Concourse,... read more