- City:
- Oakland, NJ
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished Oakland, New Jersey’s Old Ponds Church in April 1936, after the building had been deemed unsafe by local authorities. However, the WPA then salvaged “stones and hand hewn timbers” from the old church and used them to construct what was then a municipal building and what is now Oakland’s public library.
The exact location of the old church is unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; August 1936 issue, page 24. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 10, 2015.
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