Gloucester Sites

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) laborers improved/renovated what was then the Massachusetts National Guard armory in Gloucester. W.P.A. project details: "Repair and improve Armory building" Official Project Number: 165‐14‐2401 Total project cost: $9,042.00 Sponsor: Military Department, Commonwealth of Massachusetts "Make general repairs and improvements to Armory" Official Project Number: 265‐14‐5150 Total project cost: $5,473.00 Sponsor: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General's Office "Improve Armory and grounds" Official Project Number: 465‐14‐3‐950 Total project cost: $14,563.00 Sponsor: Military Department, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) constructed farm-to-market roads, including Atlantic Street, in Gloucester, Mass.

WPA Bulletin, 1937: "Up in Gloucester four WPA painters are specks in the sky as they swing in tiny bossun's chairs from the top of the 250-foot Babson Reservoir water tank which they are painting. Such a height should make a sea gull unbalanced but these men don't mind it a bit. "Safer than walking on the street" says Harrison Boutwell, one of the WPA'ers, an ex-navy man who was given a medal last summer for saving a child from death after it had fallen into Gloucester harbor and was held by the muddy bottom." Living New Deal believes the water...

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) laborers converted a dumping ground into an athletic field in Gloucester, Mass. on Centennial Ave.

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) constructed facilities at what was known as the City Home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. WPA Bulletin: At City Home, Gloucester, WPA razed a dilapidated wooden structure and built an all-stone garage and storage shed. These buildings will be used jointly by the City Home and the Welfare Department. The exact location and status of the facility is unknown to Living New Deal.

Though there is some uncertainly about the artist and original location of this mural, it was painted with the help of FAP funds.  

Frederick Mulhaupt painted "DeChamplain Surveys Le Beauport" and "Landing of Dorchester Colonists--1623" in 1936 with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. The murals were originally installed at the old Central Grammar School.  

Gloucester City Hall contains several paintings by Charles Allan Winter. "The Founding of Gloucester" was painted in 1934, with funding from an unknown federal agency. "Education" was painted in 1935 with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. It was originally installed at the old Central Grammar School. In 1939, Charles Allan Winter also painted three WPA murals in the main lobby: "“City Council in Session” fills the space above the collector’s windows (approximately 7 feet high by 11 feet wide). “City Government” covers the opposite wall. Tucked in and around the arch-topped lunettes, the two-part mural, “Civic Virtues,” spreads across the two...

The facility now known as Jodrey State Fish Pier was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds during the Great Depression. The PWA supplied a grant of $522,046 for the project, whose total cost was $1,137,311. Construction occurred between April 1937 and Sept. 1938. PWA Docket No. MA W1354

Frederick Mulhaupt painted two large pieces for the old Maplewood School in 1934-35. They were later moved to their current location at the O'Maley Middle School. "Native American Life on Cape Ann" is composed of one 6' x 40 panel and two 6' x 6' panels. It was painted in 1934. The 12' x 20' mural "Gloucester Harbor" was painted in 1935 with funds from the WPA Federal Art Project.  

A 4 x 9 foot mural, "Our Daily Bread," was painted by Frederick Stoddard in 1934 with the help of New Deal funds for the old Central Grammar School – now O'Maley Middle School in Gloucester MA. Given the date, the work was almost surely paid for by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), which hired unemployed artists in the depth of the Depression.  

The fresco murals at the Sawyer Free Library, "Scenes of the Region", by Frederick Stoddard and Howard Curtis were painted with the help of New Deal funds. They are located in the east entryway stairwell and 2nd floor reference room.

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers constructed a sizable sea wall in Gloucester, Massachusetts. From a W.P.A. Bulletin: More than 3500 tons of stone set in cement were required in the construction of this 1100 foot WPA sea wall at Stage Fort Park, Cressey Beach, Gloucester. The wall preserves teh beach area by preventing water and driven sand from flooding the park property.