Project type: Civic Facilities, Public Housing
New Deal Agencies: Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Started: 1933
Completed: 1935
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The since-demolished Douglass and Harrison Apartments was a housing project in Newark, New Jersey.
According to the Federal Writers’ Project, “Construction costs (approximately $1,800,000) were reduced through the help of the city and the Civil Works Administration in grading the entire site.”
Source notes
"New Jersey, a guide to its present and past"; Federal Writers' Project, 1939 (page 336).
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 9, 2014.
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