- City:
- New York, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Military and Public Safety, Maritime: Harbors, Ports & Lighthouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement on the training ship USS Illinois (later USS Prairie State), stationed off 135th Street on the Hudson River. The boat was sold for scrap in 1956.
WPA project details:
“Alter and rehabilitate U.S. Naval Training Ship “Illinois” at 135th Street and North River, including installing water lines, heating lines, ventilating ducts, and electrical work, replacing toilet and other partitions, tile floors and roofing, painting boat and superstructures”
Official Project Number: 765‐97‐2‐8
Total project cost: $63,300.00
Sponsor: Commandant, 3rd Naval District, U.S. Navy
Source notes
Nationwide Context, Inventory, and Heritage Assessment of Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps Resources on Department of Defense Installations, July 2009 (page C-140).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Illinois_(BB-7)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1941/05/10/midshipmens-country
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 8, 2018.
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