- City:
- Parma Heights, OH
- Site Type:
- Water Supply, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Parma Reservoir, also known as the The Parma Heights Water Facility for The City of Cleveland, “is the 1933-37 Parma Reservoir. A 326 x 306-ft. earth-covered concrete tank, technically referred to as a basin, with a Gothic-style facade resembling a 14th-century English castle hold the 23-million gallon reservoir. …[L]like many Depression-era public works projects, labor was provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as a New Deal unemployment relief measure.”
Source notes
https://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=PR2Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 30, 2016.
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Suzanne Long
I grew up on Deering Ave in the 60s. There were no fences we were lucky enough to ask the men working if we could explore. On the roof there was grass. Great memories we truly felt free summer after summer.