City Hall Improvements – New Rochelle NY

City:
New Rochelle, NY

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, City and Town Halls

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve New Rochelle’s, New York’s city hall during the 1930s.

One project, which involved numerous municipal buildings in New Rochelle, was described by the WPA in its project rolls: “Work includes performing carpentry, masonry, and sheet metal work; excavating and constructing walls; painting, placing tile, and roofing.”

WPA Official Project No. 665-21-2-635.

Source notes

National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T936; roll 9.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 16, 2014.

Location Info


515 North Ave.
New Rochelle, NY Westchester County

Coordinates: 40.919994, -73.786335

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