• Chestnut Street Development - New Castle DE
    Delaware utilized substantial federal resources in developing and improving its road network during the Great Depression. Among the dozens of projects undertaken by the federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) during 1934 was filling and paving work done along Chestnut Street in New Castle. An average of 1,410 were put to work each week during 1934 as a result of the CWA's road, sidewalk, bridge, and other related infrastructure efforts in Delaware.  
  • Dike Repair - New Castle DE
    Delaware utilized substantial federal resources in developing and improving its road network during the Great Depression. Among the dozens of projects undertaken by the federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) during 1934 was the repair of dikes in New Castle. An average of 1,410 were put to work each week during 1934 as a result of the CWA's road, sidewalk, bridge, and other related infrastructure efforts in Delaware.  
  • Goodwill Fire Company Improvements - New Castle DE
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) undertook a project conducting "painting and repairs to the Good Will Fire House on South street" in New Castle, Delaware.
  • High School (former) Improvements - New Castle DE
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) undertook a project conducting "painting and repairs to the old High School building" in New Castle, Delaware. The facility in question is unclear to Living New Deal.
  • Highway Grading - New Castle DE
    Delaware utilized substantial federal resources in developing and improving its road network during the Great Depression. Among the dozens of projects undertaken by the federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) during 1934 was highway grading work at Rose Hill. Living New Deal believes the work in question to be along Route 9 between New Castle and Wilmington. An average of 1,410 were put to work each week during 1934 as a result of the CWA’s road, sidewalk, bridge, and other related infrastructure efforts in Delaware.  
  • Old Arsenal - New Castle DE
    The "Old Arsenal," as it is known, was built in 1809, and remodeled by the WPA. From Waymarking.com: "'It was repaired and remodeled in 1936, partly as a project of the Works Progress Administration and leased (1937) to the Unemployment Compensation Commission of Delaware' . The building was later used by the National Youth Administration.  During World War II the building was used as offices for the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation which was building aircraft for the war effort.  In the late 1940s the building was again used as a school building.  By 1950 the building was owned by the State of Delaware...
  • Old Court House Restoration - New Castle DE
    "Sites of WPA projects to preserve historic shrines include ... Old Court House, Delaware." Now the New Castle Court House Museum.
  • Post Office - New Castle DE
    The historic post office building in downtown New Castle, Delaware is a fine example of a stately New Deal post office. The facility, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service. Short and Stanlet-Brown: "New Castle is historically and architecturally the most important town in Delaware, so that great care had to be taken to provide a post office which would blend with the many fine old colonial buildings. The building constructed accomplishes this. The mailing platform and vestibule are in a wing and the drive for the trucks is screened from the street by a wall...
  • Post Office Mural - New Castle DE
    The historic post office in downtown New Castle, Delaware houses an example of New Deal artwork: the mural "William Penn Welcomed at New Castle," painted in 1938 by J. Scott Williams, was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • School Lane Development - New Castle DE
    Delaware utilized substantial federal resources in developing and improving its road network during the Great Depression. Among the dozens of projects undertaken by the federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) during 1934 was construction along School Lane in New Castle. An average of 1,410 were put to work each week during 1934 as a result of the CWA’s road, sidewalk, bridge, and other related infrastructure efforts in Delaware.  
  • Water System Improvements - New Castle DE
    A municipal waterworks-improvement construction project was undertaken in New Castle, Delaware during the Great Depression, enabled by federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Construction occurred between December 1938 and April 1939. (PWA Docket No. DE X1045)
  • West Avenue Development - New Castle DE
    Delaware utilized substantial federal resources in developing and improving its road network during the Great Depression. Among the dozens of projects undertaken by the federal Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) during 1934 was construction along West Avenue in Holloway Terrace, northeast of New Castle. According to Delaware's Annual Report of the Chief Engineer State Highway Department, 1934: The work was carried on throughout the State, and consisted largely of clearing and grubbing, ditching, grading, sodding, construction of sidewalks, building of masonry culverts and bridges and the re­ pairing of dikes along the banks of the Delaware and Christian Rivers. An average of 1,410...
  • Wharf Building (demolished) Improvements - New Castle DE
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) undertook a project "painting the building on Delaware street wharf"—a city-owned facility—in New Castle, Delaware, starting Jan. 1934. The facility appears to be no longer extant.