New Deal Pointless Prize
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John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. a composer and conductor, he was most famous for his marches. The bridge, which was built from 1939 – 1940, during the New Deal, connects Pennsylvania Ave across the Anacostia River. This bridge replaced the Pennsylvania Ave Bridge which was built in the early 1800s and rebuilt after the War of 1812. A new Pennsylvania Ave bridge was rebuilt in 1890.
Riding down the W&OD, wasn’t sure about any New Deal sites in this area, so I check and it looks like the PWA provided funds for the waterworks system.
So water in Herndon was a pretty big (New) Deal.
PS. I didn’t find a specific marker or a water fountain, but I did get this building where the coordinates were near.
Public Works Administration funds helped to build this St. Pete Coast Guard station under the WPA between 1934-5. https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/coast-guard-air-station-st-petersburg-fl/ #NewDeal
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The Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) and the National Youth Administration (NYA) undertook crucial preservation work at the Frederick Douglass home (“Cedar Hill”) along the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington DC, where the great abolitionist writer and former slave lived and worked from 1878 to his death in 1895. The restoration work was focused on Douglass’ papers, library and artifacts, and on improvements to the extensive grounds of the estate.
The Hyattsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory built in 1918 and located in Hyattsville, Maryland. “The building is patterned after a medieval English castle and built of native stone, with rectangular turrets flanking the arched limestone entranceway.”
It now serves as a place of worship.
We can thank the New Deal for improvements to Sligo Creek Trail in 1935.
Sligo Creek Parkway is a landscaped, two-lane roadway in Montgomery County MD that runs parallel to Sligo Creek and the Sligo Creek Trail. It begins at Maryland Route 650 in Takoma Park, travels through Silver Spring, and ends further north at MD 193.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) did extensive work on the parkway in 1935-36, including: “building drains along existing concrete roads, ditch digging, laying storm drains, creek cribbing, footbridges, masonry headwalls; clearing, grubbing and seeding park land; building a running track, foot paths, playground equipment, drinking fountains, and shelters.” (Maryland Historical Trust)
Riverdale Fire Department
By the early 1930’s, it was evident that we were outgrowing our original fire house with swing out doors. In the mid 1930’s plans were drawn up and approved to build a new firehouse in Riverdale. This new structure was built in 1937 using federal public works funds and was designed to house the fire apparatus of the time, plus a town meeting hall was incorporated into the plan for the second floor over the firehouse. During subsquent years it has been necessary to build several additions onto the existing firehouse.
Greenbelt Community Center was formerly the town’s elementary school, library, and community building. The library was move to a new building in 1970 and a new school was built in 1990.
The architecture was streamlined in the Art Deco style popular at that time with curving lines, glass brick inserts in the facades of apartment buildings, and buttresses along the front wall of the elementary school. These buttresses create vertical lines framing a set of bas reliefs by WPA sculptor Lenore Thomas.
These features make the original buildings of the city some of the finest examples of Art Deco to be found in the Washington area. Indeed, the Greenbelt Community Center is considered one of the ten best Art Deco style structures within the United States.
Silver Spring Post Office
8412 Georgia Ave…built in 1936. “Colonial Revival” style.The history of the establishment of this post office in 1899 is fascinating. Prior to then, mail arrived to the B&O Railroad station just 2 blocks from this site (south); however the Silver Spring Post Office was located further north near the intersection of Colesville Rd and Georgia. And there was a toll gate between, so inhabitants to the south had to pay a toll of 2cents to cross and retrieve their mail! Gist Blair, grandson of the founder of Silver Spring and son of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President Lincoln, petitioned to have a post office built south of the toll station to give rural southern residents relief, and it was established by President McKinley in May of 1899.
Sadly the USPS sold this location in 1981. You’ll never guess what’s housed here today…
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