Public Library Improvements – New Albany IN

City:
New Albany, IN

Site Type:
Education and Health, Libraries

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1937

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

After the Ohio River flood in 1937, the public library in New Albany—along with libraries in Aurora, Jeffersonville, and Lawrenceburg—was refurbished by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided materials and labor to get facilities back in “good condition.”

Source notes

WPA Related Resources Available at IUB Wells Library - WPA in Indiana: "Caudell, Marcia, Deborah Jones, Ben Jessup and Marti Reeser. "WPA Library Projects in Indiana." Indiana Libraries, Volume 20, Number 1, 2001. 7-14."

Site originally submitted by DNR, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology on August 25, 2015.

Location Info


180 W Spring St.
New Albany, IN 47150
Floyd County

Coordinates: 38.2855, -85.826124

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