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.
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 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… read more