Newburyport tower
Project type: Parks and Recreation, Civic Facilities, Landscaping and Tree Planting, Monuments and Memorials
Completed: 1936
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Description
Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) co0nstructed a stately stone observation tower in Newburyport, Mass. WPA Bulletin:
In the center of Atkinson Park, Newburyport, WPA workmen have constructed a fifty-foot, field-stone, observation tower. Surrounding grounds have been landscaped with grass, trees and shrubs.
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Atkinson Common Tower Entrance
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Atkinson Common Tower
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Photo: Gerald Azenaro, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Atkinson Common Tower
Photo: Gerald Azenaro, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Source notes
Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Sept. 28, 1936 (pg. 2)
http://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 15, 2017.
Additional contributions by Ken Liss - Brookline Historical Society.
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