- City:
- Reading, PA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Schlegel Park in Reading, Pennsylvania is one of many local parks that was improved by the WPA during the New Deal. WPA workers constructed a new field house in the park.
Source notes
"Legacy; Projects from program still in use"; Reading Eagle, Apr. 23, 2005 (page A2).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 5, 2014.
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