Walt Whitman House Restoration – Camden NJ

City:
Camden, NJ

Site Type:
Archaeology and History, Historical Restoration

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

The W.P.A. conducted restoration and preservation work at “the clapboard house at Camden, N.J., in which the Good Gray Poet, Walt Whitman, spent the last years of his life.”

Source notes

Inventory: An Appraisal of Results of the Works Progress Administration (1938), pg. 36 https://archive.org/stream/Inventory19380630/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 15, 2017.

Location Info


328 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Camden, NJ 08103

Coordinates: 39.942315, -75.123499

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