Public Library Addition – Mount Vernon NY

City:
Mount Vernon, NY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Libraries

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Description

The public library in Mount Vernon, New York was expanded with a new addition during the 1930s, aided by federal Public Works Administration funds. The library is still in use today.

The addition is located at the S. 2nd Avenue side of the building.

PWA Docket No. NY 6504-D.

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 14: New York State; Folder 4: Libraries.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 31, 2014.

Location Info


28 S 1st St.
Mount Vernon, NY 10550
Westchester County

Coordinates: 40.910449, -73.83438

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