- City:
- Scituate, MA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
Recently the Scituate Visitors Center, a stone building located at the southeast corner of a parking lot for the North Scituate MBTA station in Scituate, Massachusetts, was constructed as a federal WPA project during the late 1930s. The parking lot is at the southwest corner of Country Way and Gannett Road.
Wikipedia:
“The WPA Field House and Pump Station is a historic water works facility on Henry Bailey Turner Road in Scituate, Massachusetts. The field house at Bound Brook Park was built … with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and is a rare historical recreational building in the town. The building is 1.5 stories, 38 feet deep and 41 feet wide, and built of stone with a slate side-gable roof. Its front facade is sheltered by a porch that lies under the roof and is supported by stone piers; there is a center entry that is flanked on each side by a window. …
The building and its grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.”
Source notes
https://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20110202/News/302029835 https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMD393_North_Scituate_WPA_Building_Scituate_MA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPA_Field_House_and_Pump_StationSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on October 13, 2014.
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