Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital Improvements – Jamaica NY

City:
Jamaica, New York City, Queens, NY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Hospitals and Clinics

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

Description

The WPA made numerous improvements to the rapidly growing Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital in Jamaica, New York during the 1930s. Projects included: the installation of “underground piping for heating”; “excavation and construction of steam tunnels”; the “planting of trees and shrubs”; grading the hospital’s grounds; fencing the grounds; constructing “additions to [the] shop building” as well as to garages and to the “South wing”; and more.

WPA Official Project No. 65-97-501.

Source notes

National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 10, 2014.

Location Info


Jamaica, NY 11427
Queens County

Coordinates: 40.737462, -73.729742

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