- City:
- Christiansted, St. Croix, VIRGIN-ISLANDS
- Site Type:
- Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health, Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built a new cistern and carried out the repairs and extension of the water and sewer systems, at Christiansted Hospital. Today, the facilities, known as Old Hospital, are vacant and in an advanced state of disrepair.
Source notes
National Archives, RG 55, Records of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Annual Reports of the Governor and subordinate offices, 1938-39, Box 6. [Annual Report of the Public Works Department] We Preserve USVI, Old Christiansted Hospital Revisited, accessed July 11, 2017.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on September 5, 2017.
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