- City:
- Weston, MA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Golf Courses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
Description of a project undertaken by the W.P.A. in 1937:
“Riverside Public Golf Course; this golf course, in Weston, was greatly improved by the completion of work started in 1936. The major items of work were: the removal of a hill (3,500 cubic yards of gravel) and construction of a new tee and green at No. 16 hole; seventeen tees were enlarged by approximately 35 square yards each; dead trees at No. 12 and 15 fairways were removed and 75 young pines were set out; approximately 5,000 feet of irrigation pipe was installed.”
Riverside was renamed Leo J. Martin Memorial Golf Course.
Source notes
"Annual report of the Metropolitan District Commission," by Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (1937 volume; pg. 20)
https://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20130728/NEWS/307289934
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on February 10, 2018.
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Stacy Spies
Who was the architect of the golf shop building at this course?
The architecture firm of Desmond and Lord was awarded the contract. Tom Fitzgerald, “The M.D.C. gave approval…,” The Boston Globe, 22 July 1962, p. 61. Includes image of architectural rendering.