• Post Office - Montevallo AL
    The historic post office in Montevallo, Alabama was constructed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork inside, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is still in use today.
  • Post Office Mural - Montevallo AL
    A Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Early Settlers Weighing Cotton" was painted in 1938 by William S. McCall. The work is installed in the historic post office in Montevallo, Alabama. "McCall, at the time from Jacksonville, Florida, received the invitation to do the Montevallo mural in 1938 on the basis of designs he had submitted for a competition in Miami. He immediately visited Montevallo and chose the theme of cotton and settlement of the region because,in his words, "Montevallo was a very important little town to the cotton industry of the State in the early days." The postmaster, in the...