- City:
- Reading, PA
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
A WPA project in Reading, Pennsylvania involved “washing all of the exterior of the old 19-story county courthouse” and painting its interior. The project provided work for 19 laborers during the summer of 1939.
Source notes
"Legacy; Projects from program still in use"; Reading Eagle, Apr. 23, 2005 (page A2).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 5, 2014.
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