Merritt Parkway (1938–1940), Fairfield County, Connecticut
Forty-four unique Art Deco bridges — each one different, none repeated — distinguish this Depression-era scenic highway through southern Connecticut, the…
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George Rogers Clark Memorial (1936), Vincennes, Indiana
A circular granite rotunda in Art Deco Moderne, raised on the banks of the Wabash River to mark the site where Clark’s outnumbered militia turned the tide of…
Aquatic Park Bathhouse (1939), Hyde Street, San Francisco, California
Designed to look like an ocean liner run aground on a San Francisco beach, this 1939 WPA bathhouse is the most audaciously marine building in Streamline…
Thousand Islands Bridge (1938), Alexandria Bay, New York
Two Art Deco suspension spans cross the St. Lawrence River here, linking New York to Ontario across one of the most scenic stretches of the American-Canadian…
Holland Tunnel Ventilation Buildings (1927), Canal Street, Manhattan, New York City
The Art Deco ventilation towers of the Holland Tunnel mark the Manhattan portal of the first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel in the world — and the…
Rundel Memorial Library (1936), Rochester, New York
A serene Art Deco limestone block rising from the east bank of the Genesee River, the Rundel Memorial Library brought Depression-era civic modernism to…
George Washington Bridge (1931), Fort Lee, New Jersey
The bridge whose towers were designed to be clad in granite — until Depression-era budgets cancelled the stonework and left bare lattice steel that…
Benjamin Franklin Bridge (1926), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America’s oldest major Art Deco suspension bridge carried the first automobile traffic across the Delaware River in 1926 — and carried trolleys, then rapid…
Triborough Bridge / Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (1936), New York City
Three separate bridges converging on Randall’s Island solved what a single crossing never could: linking Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens at once. Robert…
Shasta Dam (1945), Sacramento River, Redding, California
The New Deal’s great gamble on California’s future, Shasta Dam transformed the Sacramento Valley from a place of droughts and floods into the agricultural…