- City:
- Lewiston, ME
- Site Type:
- Athletic Courts and Fields, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Park improvements were one of many projects in the city that employed citizens in 1934 under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. According to the town report “Lewiston Athletic Park: General repairs and painting inside and out of the grand stand. Exterior covered with Setabs brick siding. Two bleachers demolished, rebuilt and painted. Erection of a 75 feet Flag Pole. Erected a chain link fence between the Athletic Park and the Junior Field.”
Source notes
Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenses of the City of Lewiston, Maine
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on November 26, 2017.
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