Arts:

Art Institute of Buffalo created to teach arts to working people, with watercolor painter Charles Burchfield among faculty

Fledgling Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra hired 70 musicians

Buffalo Zoo adorned with murals and cast-iron reliefs and sculpture

High schools and post offices decorated with murals

Buffalo Historical Marionettes performed hundreds of puppet shows annually

Stadiums and Performing Halls:

War Memorial Stadium constructed

Memorial Auditorium erected in 10 1/2 months

25 percent of cost paid to build Kleinhans Music Hall

Infrastructure:

Buffalo River recoursed with 25-foot-deep, 215-foot-wide and 2,000-foot-long channel

Erie Canal five-mile ditch filled in between Buffalo and Town of Tonawanda

Delaware Avenue straightened and reconstructed

53 Buffalo sewage projects worked on

Alden sewage system installed

Lackawanna slag pit cleaned up

Topographical survey of Niagara River and Lake Erie along waterfront completed

Scajaquada Bridge built over Delaware Avenue

Buffalo treatment Plant erected on island in Niagara River

Abandoned Manhattan Quarry revived behind Bennett High School