- City:
- Corning, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
The Bridge Street Bridge (originally known as the Chemung River Bridge) in Corning, New York was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The PWA provided a $119,437 grant for the project, whose total cost was $268,681. Construction occurred between Nov. 1936 and Dec. 1937. The bridge bears a PWA plaque.
PWA Docket No. NY 1290-D.
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 26.
History of the Corning-Painted Post Area: 200 Years in the Painted Post Country.
Plaques on bridge.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 7, 2015.
Additional contributions by Steuben County Historical Society Director.
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Kirk House
the historic bridges website confirms that the Bridge Street bridge was built in 1937
Period plaques at each end of the bridge identify this as a 1937 Federal Emergency Administration of Pubic Works project. This has been described as the largest New Deal project in Corning.
–Kirk House, Director, Steuben County Historical Society