- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Museums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The WPA contributed to several improvements at the Brooklyn Museum during the 1930s. According to the Federal Writers’ Project:
“During the past few years a WPA project has been making the [Brooklyn M]useum one of the most modern and pleasantly arranged in the country. The most striking change has been the removal of a monumental stairway which originally gave access to the third story, and the building of a new entrance hall at the ground level.”
Source notes
"New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond"; Federal Writers' Project, 1939.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 9, 2014.
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