The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a dike at Liberty Street in Elmira, New York to mitigate the flood hazard posed by the Chemung River. Living New Deal does not know the current status of this project.
With the aid of the the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), a new highway garage was completed for the town of Walton in Delaware County, New York. More information is needed to determine the current status and location of this project.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed fifteen laborers to conduct flood control work for two thousand feet along Owego Creek. The activity involved timber cribbing and diking “to protect the banks washed out in the July and March floods.”… read more
The Queens Borough Public Library features a number of murals completed through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The murals are: A. Grant Arnold’s “The Big Maple Tree” (1936), Philip Cheney’s “12th and Market Sts., Phila.” (1936), Louis Lozowick’s “Night Repairs” (1939),… read more
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a reservoir for the City of Troy in New York during the Great Depression. More information is needed to determine the current status and location of the reservoir.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted road work in Lackawanna, New York during the 1930s. This image shows WPA work grading a road bed and collecting refuse from local steel mills for Lackawanna road projects. Additional information is needed to determine… read more
Works Progress Administration laborers did grading and surfacing work for a new road in front of a subway crossing in Rochester. The WPA photo caption indicates that the work was done at Morris Street. More information is needed to determine… read more
Works Progress Administration (WPA) laborers constructed and renovated animal houses in the Buffalo Zoo. WPA improvements at the Buffalo Zoo included work on the Sea Lion house and pool (shown above), and construction of new pens for the Sika and… read more
WPA laborers worked to grade slopes and construct a bypass road near the carpenter shop in Belmont Lake State Park in Babylon.
The New Deal constructed tennis courts for what was then Jordan High School and is now the Jordan-Elbridge Middle School. The agency in charge was almost surely the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which built thousands of recreational facilities at schools across… read more