- City:
- White Plains, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
Description
A storm sewer construction project in White Plains, New York was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $94,000 loan and $64,001 grant toward the $228,811 total cost of the project. Work occurred between July 1935 and July 1936.
(PWA Docket No. NY 3594)
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 21.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 2, 2014.
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Jim
Gabriel Milner
This is a great project to educate folks about the New Deal. I am surprised that sewer improvements are the only item listed for White Plains, NY. because when I was growing up there in the 1960s, I saw a marvelous mural that I remember to have been a New Deal creation. It was in the White Plains P.O. on Grand St., and depicted the Battle of White Plains of the Revolutionary War. There was a commemorative U.S. postage stamp picturing the mural that was displayed in the lobby. The P.O. was closed decades ago when the city outgrew it, and I don’t know whether it is still standing there. I hope that if the building was demolished (like so much else that was lost to “urban renewal”), that the mural would have been saved.
Thanks for tipping us off to this! If you have any further information, please email us as [email protected] and we will try to post something about this mural.