Start Year: 1936

A waterworks construction project in Glendale, Arizona was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Work occurred between February and March 1936. (PWA Docket No. AZ W1003)

A waterworks-improvement construction project in Holbrook, Arizona was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $39,000 loan and $11,000 grant; the total cost of the project was $51,845. Work occurred between August and November 1936. We do not know the specifics of this project.  

A waterworks-improvement project was undertaken in Prescott AZ during the Great Depression with the aid of Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $60,000 loan and $20,871 grant; the total cost of the project was $20,800. Work occurred between April and July 1936. It is very difficult to determine what and where the water system work was done, without a deep diver into the archives of the local public works department. The fire hydrants shown here are near Ken Lindley Park.  

Arlington Heights Senior High School was one of five monumental high schools built in Fort Worth, Texas through the Public Works Administration (PWA). It was designed by local architect Preston M. Geren and built by Butcher and Sweeney in 1936-37 in the Georgian Revival style. The three-story central block is flanked by one-story arcaded wings. The landscape improvements were designed by Hare & Hare of Kansas City, MO and implemented by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The large campus was given a park-like treatment with a formal reflecting pool in front of the school and a long vista extending south from the rear. Also...

Philadelphia's Edward W. Bok Technical High School was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds between 1936 and 1938.

Fort Lee, New Jersey's old West Fort Lee schoolhouse during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor. Fort Lee's Sentinel newspaper wrote: "Parents and property owners of West Fort Lee were greatly cheered ... by news that the Federal Government has approved a WPA grant for the repair of the West Fort Lee schoolhouse. ... t is hoped will result in the prompt modernization of "a building that is in dire need of such treatment." The exact location of the old school is unknown to Living New Deal.

Fort Lee, New Jersey received a modern sewer system during the Great Depression with the assistance of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor. Fort Lee's Palisadian newspaper wrote: For many years has been without the benefit of a sewer system. Often the overflowing of cesspools has created a condition that was not only very unpleasant but to health. The officials have been cognizant of the bad condition for a number of years but because of Fort Lee's sorry financial plight were unable to provide a remedy. A majority of the property owners effected were in no position to shoulder an...

An old unsatisfactory wagon road, connecting the village of Dennisville with Cape May Court House, New Jersey, was converted into a farm-to-market road in Middle Township, New Jersey, with approximately 100 federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers. "The entire cost of the work is $33,425.00. Of this amount, the WPA will furnish $29,035, leaving $4,590 to be contributed by Middle Township. The project will continue for seven months." The road in question is most likely what is now known as Court House-South Dennis Road.

Poultry farmers in the villages of Richland and Milmay, of Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, pleaded to the township to improve the conditions of roads as "large flocks of chickens on these farms are faced with starvation because of the inability of any vehicles to penetrate the muddy and sodden thoroughfares." 100 federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers were immediately reassigned by the township to improve the roads around Richland and Milmay, thus making them passable.

The rustic style pavilion was constructed in Livingston Park, currently home to the Jackson Zoological Park.