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  • Wilson Ave. Public Bath Improvements (demolished) - Brooklyn NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration undertook a $93,900 project starting in 1935 to modernize and otherwise improve several public (now-former) bath facilities in Brooklyn, NY. The public baths at Wilson Ave. and Willoughby Ave. were constructed in 1908; the building has since been demolished. The facilities identified as part of the WPA project were: 209 Wilson Ave. Municipal Baths, Coney Island Duffield Street Hicks Street Pitkin Ave. Huron St. Montrose Ave.
  • Red Mountain Creek Bridge - Piercy CA
    In 1935, a bridge was built over Red Mountain Creek in rural Mendocino county south of Piercy along the old Redwood Highway (a piece of which appears to be renamed "Rosewarne Road"). The funds were granted by the federal government – probably the Bureau Public Roads – under the New Deal to the state of California Department of Highways. Later, Interstate 101 was built along the same route and the old bridge was removed.
  • Pelican Avenue (former) Improvements - Brooklyn NY
    The federal Work Projects Administration put many men to work starting in 1935 with a $197,000 street repair and maintenance project, along what were then dirt roads, throughout the borough of Brooklyn, New York. Roads improved included a stretch of what was at that point Pelican Avenue from "Flatbush Ave. to Hancock St."  Pelican Avenue was eliminated on New York City maps in 1941, and the land previously allocated for the road was turned over to the city's Department of Parks for development as part of Marine Park. Questions remain as to whether the terminus for the project was really called...
  • Airport Hangar (demolished) - St. Thomas VI
    The federal Public Works Administration helped to provide funding for the construction of an airport hangar during the 1930s (PWA Federal Project No. 223). The airport, under the name Bourne Field, served as a military airfield and, during the early 1940s, the hangar was extended an addition 100 feet. (Navy.mil) The hangar served as the passenger terminal for the Harry S Truman Airport; the building was fully replaced when a new terminal was completed in 1990. The old hangar was most likely demolished between 1980 and the early 1990s. The airport has since been renamed the Cyrus E. King Airport.
  • Incinerator (demolished) - Greenwich CT
    Greenwich, Connecticut's town incinerator was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration funds during the 1930s. The structure, which served from 1938 to 1977, has since been demolished. The land now constitutes part of Christiano Park. PWA Docket No. CT 1278 provided a grant of $72,192 to the town for the incinerator's construction, which covered much of the project's $169,914 final cost. Construction started in March 1938 and was completed in November of that year.
  • Hall Morgan Post 83 American Legion Hut (demolished) - Rison AR
    The rustic-style log structure constructed by the WPA was demolished in 2013 and replaced with a new Verteran's building.
  • Federal Building (demolished) - Rison AR
    This two-story Art Deco building adjacent to Cleveland County courthouse was built by the WPA in 1940. It was listed on National Register of Historic Places in 2000 and removed in 2005, apparently when it was demolished. The Cleveland Historical Society intended to refurbish the building as a museum, but was unable to raise the required funds within the designated time.
  • Fort Lafayette Improvements (demolished) - Brooklyn NY
    The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve the facilities at Fort Lafayette, located in an island off Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, during the early 1940s. One project involved "removing and replacing deck, sheathing, stringers, camps, bracing, fenders, and piles; improving baffles, painting, grading, filling," and performing other related work. "Upon the close of the War, Fort Lafayette no longer had a role in military operations, and fell in to a state of disrepair. In 1948, the Fort was transferred to the City of New York. It was demolished in 1960, and in its footprint was built a colossal tower rising...
  • Whitehall Street Army Building Improvements (demolished) - New York NY
    The Work Projects Administration worked to "improve and alter" the old U.S. Army Building, located at 39 Whitehall Street, during the early 1940s. The building was demolished in 1983.
  • Post Office (former) Addition - Kingston NY
    Kingston, New York's 1907 post office, located at the northeast corner of Broadway and Grand Street, was enlarged and remodeled using Treasury Department funds in a project completed in 1938. The local paper Daily Freeman reported in 2013: "It was a beautiful granite post office built there in 1907," but it eventually got to be too small for the community's needs, Ford said. A former mayor could have purchased the old building for $1 and preserved it, the historian said, but he wanted the property back on the tax rolls, so the building was sold and torn down.
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