Project type: Military and Public Safety, Armories
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
W.P.A. improvements to the former Armory building (which Living New Deal believes to be on Washington Ave., and since demolished) in New London, CT included the following projects:
- Construct armory and drill shed
Official Project Number: 165‐1‐15‐145
Total project cost: $219,898.00
Sponsor: State Department of Public Works - Repair and improve Armory building
Official Project Number: 165‐15‐2005
Total project cost: $682.00
Sponsor: Quartermaster General’s Department
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-24).
Connecticut Military Department (accessed Dec. 22, 2017)
https://www.ct.gov/mil/cwp/view.asp?a=1351&Q=588308&PM=1
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on December 22, 2017.
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