• Livingston County New Deal Gallery - Mount Morris NY
    This site, a former sanatorium, holds a collection of over 200 works funded by the New Deal, with roughly 25 paintings at a time on display. The online archive can be accessed here. From the New Deal Gallery website: Our Murray Hill site was visited by Eleanor Roosevelt and chosen for the Mount Morris Tuberculosis Sanatorium when FDR was Governor of New York. The complex was the recipient of a collection of 230+ easel paintings. The sanatorium opened in 1936 and operated until 1971. The campus was turned over to the county in 1973. Since that time our building and most...
  • Mount Morris Tuberculosis Sanitorium (former) Art - Mount Morris NY
    From the Livingston County New Deal Art Gallery website: "The Murray Hill site was visited by Eleanor Roosevelt and chosen for the Mount Morris Tuberculosis Sanatorium when FDR was Governor of New York... The sanatorium opened in 1936 and operated until 1971. The campus was turned over to Livingston county in 1973. Since that time our building and most of the buildings on the campus have been Livingston county offices. When the county acquired the sanatorium it also acquired its painting collection created during the New Deal. "After 1973 the works of art stayed on the walls in the Livingston county...
  • Sanitary Sewers - Mount Morris NY
    A sanitary sewer construction project in Yonkers, New York was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied an $11,000 loan and $3,628 grant; the total cost of the project was $14,364. Work occurred between June and October 1934. (PWA Docket No. NY 2256)