• Auburn Correctional Facility Construction - Auburn NY
    Then known as Auburn State Prison, the Auburn Correctional Facility received a sizable expansion as a result of a $226,000 federal Public Works Administration grant during the 1930s. PWA Federal Docket No. 3248 (NY). Specific construction included "accommodations for inmates, incinerator, connecting corridors and guard house."
  • Holland Stadium - Auburn NY
    Originally known as East High Stadium, what is now Holland Stadium was constructed as a New Deal project undertaken during the Great Depression. Construction on the facility, which lies behind what is now known as Auburn Junior High School, occurred in 1936; football games have been played there ever since. The federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) supplied a $48,056 grant for the project, whose total cost was $110,336. P.W.A. Docket No. NY 1405
  • Lake Avenue Highway - Auburn NY
    During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook work to widen Lake Avenue in Auburn, New York. The WPA caption for the above photo, taken by WPA Photographer Dan Nero in 1938, reads: "Two Course highway in Auburn's Lake Avenue; the gateway to Owasco Lake and its neighboring summer resorts. Was once a ragged one-way roadway" (WPA). Lake Avenue runs into New York State Route 38 south of Swift Street. There Route 38 becomes a 4 lane divided highway, and runs all the way to Owasco Lake (Auburn Roads Department).
  • Post Office and Courthouse (former) Expansion - Auburn NY
    The historic Post Office and Courthouse in Auburn, New York was "built in 1888–1890 and was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Mifflin E. Bell, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The limestone-and-brick building was expanded in 1913–1914, designed by James M. Elliot, and again in 1937." The latter extension served as a New Deal project, developed with funds provided by the federal the Treasury Department. The building presently serves as a county office building.
  • Treatment Plant - Auburn NY
    A water treatment / disposal facility was constructed in Auburn, New York as part of a sizable New Deal project. The Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) supplied a $353,421 grant for the project, whose total cost was $809,624. Construction occurred in 1936-7. P.W.A. Docket No. 1057