Project type: Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1935
Quality of Information: Minimal
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook a sizable public building improvement project in Brooklyn, New York beginning in 1935. The project involved the “Improvement of Public Buildings and Offices” at more than 30 locations, including the no-longer-extant Children’s Court building at 113(?) Schermerhorn St.
Source notes
National Archives RG 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA]; Project Files; New York City (E 407); box 684; roll 3643; Official Project No. 65-97-43[?].
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 24, 2014.
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