New Deal Accomplishment: Over 400 new firehouses
Above: The Monte Vista Fire Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, built by the WPA in 1936. Between 1935 and 1943 WPA workers constructed 325 new firehouses, and carried out 2,384 other projects to improve existing firehouses. Photo from the National Archives . Above: The description for this photograph, taken in Mississippi, June 1938, reads: "Fire House - one of three constructed by the WPA for city of Biloxi." Photo from the National Archives . Above: Firemen are enjoying a new recreation area, in a WPA-built addition to their firehouse in Rutland, Vermont, 1937. The addition also included a kitchen, library, and dormitory. Photo from the National Archives . Above: WPA workers putting the finishing touches on a new firehouse for La Jolla, California, 1937. Photo from the National Archives . Above: The New Deal's Public Works Administration (PWA) funded many firehouses too, such as this one in Williamson, New York, ca. 1936. Photo from the National Archives . Above...