• Elias Howe School (former) Murals - Bridgeport CT
    Bridgeport's Normal School received one or more murals under the WPA's Federal Art Project. The City Normal School was part of Grammar School No. 3, which was later renamed the Elias Howe School. The Elias Howe School still stands today, but is unused. The fate of the WPA murals is unknown.
  • Main Post Office - Bridgeport CT
    The historic main post office building in Bridgeport, Connecticut was completed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses multiple works of New Deal artwork in its lobby, is still in use today.
  • Main Post Office Murals - Bridgeport CT
    This 1934 post office contains two sets of 3-panel murals, one by Arthur Covey and the other by Robert Lambdin. All were painted in 1936. The Covey murals are entitled "Bridgeport Manufacturing." The Lambdin murals entitled "Stagecoach and Modern Transportation" show: "powerful images of an important part of American historythat is, the transportation of mail. A stagecoach was depicted on one panel to show the early days of mail transportvia horses and wagons. Another panel showed the work inside the post office, with men carrying bags loaded down with huge deliveries. By the 1936, the idea of planes transporting mail was now...
  • Popular Library Murals - Bridgeport CT
    Re: a photograph "taken in 1944 in what is now the Popular Library of the main Burroughs-Saden Branch of the Bridgeport Public Library at Broad and State streets in downtown Bridgeport ... was the library's children's room... The murals in the corner were painted as a Works Progress Administration project, according to Mary Witkowski, who heads the library's historical collections. "It's still there," she said."
  • Sikorsky Memorial Airport Development - Stratford CT
    The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted a large development / improvement program at the City of Bridgeport's municipal airport, located in Stratford. It is now known as Sikorsky Memorial Airport. Official Project Number: 165‐1‐15‐34 Total project cost: $1,053,827.00 Sponsor: City of Bridgeport