• City Auditorium - York NE
    Constructed by the WPA in 1940-42. "In August of 1938 a $90,000 bond issue was approved by more than 60 percent of voters. As those votes were being canvassed, the rumblings of war could be heard coming from Europe. Germany was being warned by Great Britain, France and Russia about the consequences of entering Czechoslovakia. Before the construction of City Auditorium could be completed, the initial goal of providing work for the unemployed would be supplanted by labor shortages due to the war. But, in July of 1940 there were 227 York County workers enrolled with the WPA. That month, after a long...