- City:
- Framingham, MA
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Penal Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Started:
- 1935
Description
In 1935 F.E.R.A. and W.P.A. labor conducted the following improvement work at what was then known as the Reformatory (now Massachusetts Correctional Institution), in Framingham, Mass.:
Roads and walks were constructed and grading done at the Reformatory Mother’s Cottage and Junior Inmates’ Home. Also, a clothes drying yard was graded and built. Maple floors were relaid in the corridors of the main buildings.
The W.P.A. constructed facilities and conducted beautification work on the grounds as well.
Source notes
Annual Report of the Town of Framingham for the Year Ending December 31, 1935 (pp. 331, 333). Annual Report of the Town of Framingham for the Year Ending December 31, 1938 (pg. 271).Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 2, 2017.
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