Mosholu Golf Course Improvements – Bronx NY

City:
Bronx, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Golf Courses

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Works Administration (CWA), Temporary Emergency Relief Act (NY only)

Completed:
1936

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Mosholu Golf Course is in the southeast corner of Van Cortlandt Park is a public golf course built with 9 holes rather than 18. It specializes in children and teenagers. It opened in 1914. A New York City Parks Department press release from May 7, 1936 described New Deal improvements to the golf course: “Van Cortlandt and Mosholu [golf courses] in the Bronx … have been reconditioned and remodeled to some extent. All this work has been done with relief funds provided by the C.W.A., T.E.R.A. and W.P.A.”

Location Info


3545 Jerome Ave
Bronx, NY 10467
Bronx County

Coordinates: 40.886174, -73.883020

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