East Hartford Sites

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a project in East Hartford involving "Ash Street grading and surface drain job."

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a project "the clearing and grubbing of land on the eastern edge of the Burnside Avenue Playground and installation of drives and walks." Furthermore, the WPA installed a "new drinking fountain ... at the Burnside Avenue Plavground near the tennis courts. This was done in connection with the laying of a new six-inch water feed line for filling the wading pool." The park in question is unclear to Living New Deal.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a project "installing surface drains on Forbes Street, from Willow Brook southerly to a point about 1500 feet south of Silver Lane. About 25 men will be employed for four months."

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a project involving the "clearing and grubbing of land ... between the Hockanum River And the new Hillside Avenue extension. About 30 men will be employed here." Living New Deal believes this to be Hillside Street.

Commissioned by the Treasury Department and completed in 1939, the historic East Hartford branch post office houses an example of New Deal artwork. It is still in service.

This tempera mural "The Stop of Hooker's Band in East Hartford before Crossing the River" was one of 48-State Competition Post Office Murals. It has been damaged, but half of the mural remains. "This five by thirteen foot mural, painted in egg tempera, was the result of a Public Works Administration national competition held in 1940, when Tobey was still an art student at Yale. The painting was influenced by the works of Italian fresco painter Piero della Francesca, and the style is different from the realism that characterizes most of Tobey's other historical works. Although popularly referred to as "The...