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Re: WPA
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"Becker, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:41 AM
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> One of the great park systems  of the WPA was the Blue ridge 
> skyway  and the   creation of the Appellation trail system
> 
> the  second great park system was the Natchez trace  
>  
> ; most of the post offices in the South are WPA...
> many with murals by WPA artists
>    I am not sure but surely parts of Colonial Williamsburg 
> maybe the WPA and so may be New York's West Side Highway  
> I remember a lot of the catskills Park and reservoir system 
> was WPA. And was not Dewey's, NY State throughway also WPA..

There are also the affiliated Public Works Administration (PWA) projects. Raleigh's 1939 Water Treatment Plant was constructed using PWA funding. It is an incredible industrial structure where the building itself is the machine. Yet the level of architectural expression (Art Deco) and finish is second to none.

Regrettably, a promising adaptive use proposal never came to pass and it sits unused today. It is in good hands awaiting its day to shine, but it is a shame that it is not currently open to the public.

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/raleigh/ebb.htm

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