City Yard Building – Pittsfield MA

City:
Pittsfield, MA

Site Type:
Auxiliary Civic Facilities, Civic Facilities

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

Description

WPA Bulletin, 1937: “Pittsfield’s employees in the Sealers of Weights and Measures office will be thankful to WPA on completion of a concrete and steel building to house weighing equipment and instruments at the City Yards, Housatonic Street. Previously testing of equipment had been done outside, no matter the weather, and the process was often uncomfortable and unsatisfactory. Thirteen men are finishing up the job which is expected to be ready by November 1.”

Source notes

Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Nov. 1, 1937 (pg. 2). https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 5, 2017.

Location Info


232 W. Housatonic St.
Pittsfield, MA

Coordinates: 42.443369, -73.265769

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