English: As seen in October 2022, a view looking eastward down Odell Street in Lackawanna, New York through the Baker Homes public housing project. Designed collaboratively by the local architectural practices of Hudson & Hudson, Harbach & Kideney, and Joseph E. Fronczak, this complex was a project of the Public Works Administration, a Depression-era institution whose intent was to improve the economy by providing income to unemployed construction workers, the project opened to residents in May 1938 and was named after Monsignor Nelson Baker, arguably Lackawanna's most famous native son who helmed the massive Catholic charitable institutions of Our Lady of Victory. These 267 units of low-cost housing were marketed principally to workers at the nearby Lackawanna Steel Plant, and boasted amenities that, according to a Buffalo Evening News article on their impending construction, were "modern in every respect" and included "such comforts as electric refrigerators, tile bathrooms, and separate hot-air furnaces". The units are arranged side by side in 24 townhouse-style buildings and have identical floor plans, with living room and kitchen downstairs and bedrooms above. Architecturally, the buildings hew closely to the typical design of PWA public housing projects with their brick and stone exteriors, simple and functional design, and subtle Colonial Revival influences.