Showing posts with label WPA projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WPA projects. Show all posts

Monday, October 06, 2008

Stadium

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Quincy Municipal Stadium, also called Veteran's Memorial Field, is another W.P.A. Project that was erected betweeen 1937-1938 and dedicated to the youth of Quincy as a memorial to war veteran's. This is where the home football games are played for both the city's high schools as well as many other events.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

We've got mail!

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This simple granite 1940s Colonial Revival sub-post office station on Beach Street, in the Wollaston section, was designed by architect Louis A. Simon. It is one of Quincy's monuments to the WPA project launched in 1935 by President Roosevelt to tackle the Depression problem of aid for the unemployed through a work-relief program which built roads, schools, park structures and civic buildings. At the peak of the Depression, Quincy had over 10,000 people on relief rolls making worthwhile, long-lasting improvements to the city like the fine Post Office building shown here.

Summer Attraction

This tiger swallowtail butterfly was a delight to see pollinating the phlox bed along my driveway.