• Lakeville Elementary School Improvements - Great Neck NY
    The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Great Neck, New York's Lakeville Elementary School during the late 1930s. One modest project called for general carpentry improvements and painting at this building and Great Neck's "domestic science cottage."
  • Post Office - Great Neck NY
    The historic post office in downtown Great Neck, New York "was built in 1939-40 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one story, pentagonal shaped skeletal frame building clad with plucked textured buff limestone in the Classical Revival style. It features a semicircular entrance portico supported by four square columns." (Wikipedia)
  • Post Office Relief - Great Neck NY
    The front entrance of the main post office in Great Neck, New York is decorated with a New Deal-funded bas relief of an eagle and stars installed by Gaetano Cecere. The work was financed by Section of Fine Arts funding and completed in 1940.
  • Sanitary Sewers - Great Neck NY
    A massive sanitary sewer construction project in Great Neck, New York was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $565,000 loan and $190,067 grant; the total cost of the project was $757,638. Work occurred between October 1934 and December 1935. (PWA Docket No. NY 2631)