- City:
- Reading, PA
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety, Firehouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
The Reading Fire Department EMS Station was built as a New Deal project: the Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $33,789 grant for the project, whose total cost was $69,493. A 1939 cornerstone can be found at the northeast corner. The facility was dedicated October 9, 1939.
PWA Docket No. PA [X]2134
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 38.
Cornerstone
Reading Times, October 10, 1939 (pg. 2)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 16, 2018.
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