- City:
- Audubon, NJ
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Stadiums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a stadium on what was then the high school’s athletic field in Audubon, New Jersey. The exact location or status of the facility is unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; August 1936 issue, page 16. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.
"Work Started on Audubon Stadium"; Weekly Visitor, Audubon, NJ, May 21, 1936.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 10, 2015.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
This stadium still stands and is used and maintained by Audubon. Its in great shape and a testament to the work of the WPA. There are many works all throughout the park right near the high school as well.