Public Works Administration (PWA)
Helping the community, and you.
Started June 1933
Between July 1933 and March 1939 the PWA funded and administered the construction of more than 34,000 projects including airports, large electricity-generating dams, major warships for the Navy, and bridges, as well as 70% of the new schools and one-third of the hospitals built between 1933–1939.
Road in Ohio
Streets and highways were the most common PWA projects, as 11,428 road projects, or 33% of all PWA projects, accounted for over 15% of its total budget
Lincoln Tunnel
The PWA was the major catlyst in the building of the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River leading into Manhattan, New York.
Triborough Bridge
Construction began in 1929 and was opened to the public July 11, 1936.