Library (demolished) – Linden NJ

City:
Linden, NJ

Site Type:
Education and Health, Libraries

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant for construction of the the former library in Linden, New Jersey. The building was completed in 1939, and was demolished in 2010 to make way for the “modern facility behind it on the same East Henry Street site.”

PWA Docket No. NJ [W]1212

Source notes

Source: 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 19.

https://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/01/old_linden_library_to_come_dow.html

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 27, 2018.

Location Info


31 E Henry St.
Linden, NJ 07036

Coordinates: 40.634753, -74.257896

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