- City:
- Buffalo, NY
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
WPA photos (pictured) show the Schiller Park pools and locker house built by the WPA in Buffalo, New York. Google images do not show an existing pool.
Google Earth shows remains of the Pool House (42 54’ 43”N 78 48’ 07”W) but the 12 foot and 4 foot pools are filled in.
Source notes
National Archives and Records Administration, Negative 15750-D
Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on December 16, 2015.
Additional contributions by Donald Fronc.
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carol Buthwick Pacas
Raymond Waters
Dennis
swam in those pools as a kid .The 1956 to 1959
Used to walk to Schiller Pool every day in the 50s. My happiest memory is the day they let me into the 4-ft. Pool because I was finally tall enough! I remember the long walk from Weston Avenue to Genesee and beyond, on hot July days there was a gorgeous garden and orchard across from Schiller Park. Growing up in Buffalo was a Huck Finn life!
Remember the diving boards? It took me a few years before I was able to go off the high board. I still remember that!
I remember walking from Pine Hill over to the pools in the early 60s—I also thought that the high board was very tall! One memory I have is that every spring there were tadpoles hatching in the wading pool.