National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center

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National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center

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Nearest city Woodstock, New York
Coordinates 42°2′25″N74°5′39″W / 42.04028°N 74.09417°W / 42.04028; -74.09417 Coordinates: 42°2′25″N74°5′39″W / 42.04028°N 74.09417°W / 42.04028; -74.09417
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built 1939
NRHP reference # 92000455 [1]
Added to NRHP April 30, 1992

National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center is a national historic district located at Woodstock in Ulster County, New York. The district includes seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures. It includes three shop buildings, four shed buildings, a ca. 1900 barn, and a decorative flagpole base. It was built in 1939 by the National Youth Administration and operated until 1942 as a facility devoted to training youths in the industrial arts. The camp is currently used by the Woodstock School of Art. [2]

Woodstock, New York Town in New York, United States

Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 5,884 at the 2010 census, down from 6,241 at the 2000 census. Woodstock is in the northern part of the county, northwest of Kingston, and lies within the borders of the Catskill Park.

Ulster County, New York County in the United States

Ulster County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 182,493. The county seat is Kingston. The county is named after the Irish province of Ulster.

National Youth Administration

The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency sponsored by the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. It operated from June 26, 1935 to 1939 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and included a Division of Negro Affairs headed by Mary McLeod Bethune who worked at the agency from 1936 to 1943. Following the passage of the Reorganization Act of 1939, the NYA was transferred from the WPA to the Federal Security Agency. In 1942, the NYA was transferred to the War Manpower Commission (WMC). The NYA was discontinued in 1943.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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Cornerstone of the 1939-built work center. NYA-Cornerstone.jpg
Cornerstone of the 1939-built work center.