- 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.
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