- City:
- Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Edmund Friedman
- Contractor:
- Nashville Bridge Co.
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Palm Beach’s old Flagler Memorial Bridge was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA). The PWA supplied a $398,750 loan and $326,455 grant for the project, whose total cost was $735,490. Construction began in Jan. 1937 and completed in Jun. 1938. In 2014 the bridge was undergoing replacement and demolition. PWA Project No. 1085-D.
The project is sometimes mis-attributed to another New Deal agency, the WPA. WPB.org: “WPA funds were also utilized to construct the Flagler Memorial Bridge which opened in 1938, replacing the earlier railroad bridge from West Palm Beach to Palm Beach.”
Source notes
PWA signage: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/first-and-second-new-deal-af7b4295-a469-426b-83cb-7ba3dcb250b8
https://wpb.org/wp-content/uploads/acms/2010-07-12-Commission_Meeting/15_ACM_18062_Revised.pdf
(page 29)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 19, 2015.
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