The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) conducted substantial improvement work at Cambridge Reservoir (Hobbs Brook Reservoir) in Lincoln and Waltham, MA. Work included nine miles (for an area of about 500,000 square feet) of shore rip-rapping and the clearing 316 acres… read more
"The old bridge across the Charles River at this point had become unsafe. This new bridge is a single span of 105 feet and consists of a three-hinged steel arch encased in concrete supporting a 40-foot roadway and two 6-foot… read more
Description of a project undertaken by the W.P.A. in 1937: “Forest Grove Road, Waltham; a project to widen, relocate and improve this roadway, which traverses land in the Charles River Reservation, was approved and work was started in November, 1937…. read more
The former high school in Waltham, Massachusetts, now John W. McDevitt Middle School, received an addition as part of a New Deal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. Construction occurred in 1935. PWA Docket No. MA 5042