• Lake Avenue School Improvements - Saratoga Springs NY
    The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted modest improvement work, including painting of the auditorium, at the old high school on Lake Avenue in Saratoga Springs. The facility is presently in use as the Lake Avenue Elementary School.
  • Post Office Murals - Saratoga Springs NY
    The post office contains two murals entitled "Saratoga in Racing Season" painted by Guy Pene du Bois in 1937 under the TRAP (Treasury Relief Art Project). This office is now the Finance Unit, Downtown.
  • Saratoga Spa Complex - Saratoga Springs NY
    Saratoga Springs has been famous for its mineral waters, for bathing and drinking, for four centuries, and was known to native people long before that.  The town has a rich history of tourism, horse-racing and gambling, and its many springs have been developed commercially and heavily exploited by bottling companies.  In order to protect the springs from over-pumping, the area was declared a New York State Reservation in 1909. Dr. Simon Baruch, a leading exponent of hydrotherapy, guided the Spa's development in its early years.  In 1928, New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt established a commission to rehabilitate the springs, chaired by Bernard Baruch,...