The Bureau of Public Roads provided funds to construct an overpass carrying 12th Street over the railroad in Folsom, N.J. The project was undertaken as part of a larger grade crossing elimination initiative during that era. Living New Deal believes this structure has since been replaced…. read more
Among a series of paving projects undertaken by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Irvington, New Jersey was the 700-foot stretch of 20th Avenue from Ellis Ave. to 21st St. The work was completed in three days in September… read more
Among a series of paving projects undertaken by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Irvington, New Jersey was the 1,200-foot stretch of 21st Street from from 20th Ave. to 18th Ave.
The Jersey City Independent reported in 2009 that the A. Harry Moore School was “one of the first public schools in the country built for students with disabilities.” While the school was constructed between 1930 and 1931, the New Deal… read more
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a garage for what was then known as Allentown Hospital (now Geraldine L. Thompson Care Center) in 1936. The status of the old garage is unknown to Living New Deal.
The historic 3rd Regiment Armory building on Washington St. in Bridgeton, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts: “Replacing present rotted out window sills and painting, cleaning and white‐washing walls in the Armory building.” WPA Official Project Number: 65‐22‐5648
The historic 113th Infantry Armory building in Passaic, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. As per project description: “Improve 113th Infantry Armory Building, located at River Drive and Main Avenue.” “The Armory Building served Passaic, and its now… read more
The historic armory in Somerville, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. As per project descriptions: “Improvements to Armory;” “Replacing concrete floor paint walls, replace plumbing fixtures and paint floors, in Armory.” The structure, which was located on the… read more
The historic 1912 armory in Elizabeth, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. As per project descriptions: “Alter armory building and construct driveways, curbs, ramps, and walls;” “Install new services to building;” “Elizabeth Armory. Interior and exterior painting, drill… read more
The historic armory in Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. As per project description: “Improve the National Guard Armory by painting, and perform work apparent thereto.” The structure is now privately owned. WPA Official Project Number:… read more
The historic armory building in Plainfield, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. As per project description: “Improve Armory.” The facility presently houses the New Jersey Naval Militia Foundation. WPA Official Project Number: 65‐22‐6192
The former armory building in Red Bank, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts: “Improve, renovate, and make alterations at Armory.” WPA Official Project Number: 65‐1‐22‐163 The former armory later served as an equestrian riding hall, and presently houses an ice… read more
The historic 114th Infantry Armory building in Trenon, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. A 1930 map identifies the armory’s location as the northwest corner of what was then the intersection of E. Front St. and Armory Dr…. read more
The armory building in Asbury Park, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts, including the modest projects: “Paint interior of drill shed at National Guard Armory Building,” and “Painting of National Guard Armory Building.”
The historic armory building in Lawrence Township (Lawrenceville by mailing address), New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. WPA project descriptions: “Improve 112th Field Artillery Armory” and “Rehabilitate buildings.” Work was sponsored by the Quartermaster General’s Department of New Jersey,… read more
The historic armory building in Westfield, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts. As per project description: “Construct drill field, drives, drains, and landscape.” WPA Official Project Numbers: 165‐22‐2076, 465‐22‐2‐548
The historic 114th Infantry Armory building in Woodbury, New Jersey was the recipient of WPA improvement efforts: “Improve 114th Infantry Armory and surrounding grounds at Broadway* and Red Bank Avenue.” (* The location of the armory is Red Bank Ave. and… read more
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) constructed an athletic field in Garfield, N.J. The exact location of the facility is unknown to Living New Deal.
The condition of Atlantic City’s primary thoroughfare Atlantic Avenue was so poor that it was occasionally referred to as “no man’s land” prior to the federal Works Progress Administration’s resurfacing of the road in 1936.
Atlantic City International Airport was “established in 1942 as a Naval Air Station on 4,312 acres leased from Atlantic City.” (www.sjta.com) “In 1941, in its attempt to stimulate the local economy, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) had begun clearing a… read more
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed the Atlantic City Reservoir in Absecon, New Jersey. At one point 1,200 WPA employees were working on the project.
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant for the construction of an underpass to carry Avenel Street under the train tracks in Avenel, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey (at the train station). The project was undertaken as part of a larger… read more
The old B.S. Pollak Hospital, part of the old Jersey City Medical Center, was constructed with federal funds during the Great Depression. The building is now privately owned. “The Pollak Hospital facility was formerly the site of a three-story building… read more
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) resurfaced Atlantic City’s Baltic Avenue in 1936. “One of the tracks will be removed from that thoroughfare, new gutters will be laid and the street resurfaced with asphalt, the same as Atlantic avenue.” “Twelve… read more
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided an $82,500 loan and $67,500 grant for construction of a school in Monroe Township, New Jersey. Total cost of the project was $152,000. Completed in 1936, Living New Deal believes this is the Barclay Brook… read more
“The CCC camp at Bass River State Forest, Camp S-55, lasted from 1933 to 1942, throughout the entire life of CCC. … There were usually 200 men at the camp, which was a full complement. The CCC members performed wide… read more
The federal National Youth Administration (NYA) worked to improve the stadium for Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey in 1938. The NYA “weeded, rolled and marked the stadium track; prepared the broad jump pit; laid out the course of… read more
From the James F. Justin CCC Museum website: “Belleplain [State Forest] was established in 1928 by the state [of New Jersey] … Beginning in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) transformed the Meisle family’s cranberry bog into a 26.2 acre… read more
The Bureau of Public Roads provided funds for the grade separation of Belleville Turnpike and the Erie Railroad. New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners: “A “Works Program-State Highway Department” project involving two separate grade crossings on which the Board initiated proceedings and… read more
In conjunction with what was known as the Ridge Avenue Connector, “the high speed electric rail transit line which connects the Ridge Avenue—Eighth Street—Locust Street Subway in Philadelphia with a terminal near the Broadway Station of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in Camden,… read more
The Farm Security Administration commissioned this mural in 1937-38 to commemorate the New Deal resettlement community of Jersey Homesteads, now called Roosevelt, N.J. The mural can still be seen in the Roosevelt Public School. “Ben Shahn’s mural for the community… read more
“In the 1930’s as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), murals were painted in courtrooms 253 and 352. In the early 1940’s an additional mural was added in courtroom 357. All three murals were designed by Teaneck resident William… read more
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) provided labor for the improvement of Bergen Pines, the Bergen County Hospital, in Paramus, N.J. The CWA converted swampland into a “fifteen-acre recreation haven” for the grounds.
Longport, New Jersey’s Betty Bacharach Home for Afflicted Children was constructed in 1924, before the Great Depression. However, the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed an addition, featuring a “new physiotherapy pool and treatment unit” at the site starting in… read more
“WHIPPANY – The Veterans CCC Camp activities are now centered in Whippany at Hait’s bridge on Route 10. The men are busily engaged in dredging the junction and courses of the Black Brook and Whippany River, cleaning out the silt,… read more
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) constructed “concrete stands” at Bloomington High School in New Jersey, 1934. The location and status of the project is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed an addition to the boardwalk in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1936.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked to improve the boardwalk in in Atlantic City ca. 1935-6. The project included the installation of new decking. The improvements helped the boardwalk to withstand the Cape Hatteras hurricane of 1936.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) reconstructed the boardwalk in Bradley Beach, New Jersey. The project “called for 800 linear feet of boardwalk, 24 feet wide, between McCabe and Newark Aves., and 800 linear feet, 34 feet wide, between Lareine… read more
“Closter Borough Hall, erected in 1938, was a triumph of effort and cooperation between our local leaders of that time and the able workforce provided by the federal Works Progress Administration (the “WPA”). Its style is described as Art Deco/Moderne,… read more