- City:
- Selden, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Hospitals and Clinics
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
No-longer-extant, the Suffolk County Tuberculosis Sanatorium is now the site of Suffolk County Community College in Selden.
Suffolk County News reported that, between 1935 and 1936, the WPA undertook many projects in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, including landscaping the grounds of the Suffolk County Sanitorium.
Source notes
"$1,220,669 Federal WPA Funds Have Been Spent Here"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 4, 1936, page 12.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 20, 2014.
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