• Post Office - Cresco IA
    The post office in Cresco was completed in 1935 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Richard Haines's 1937 mural, "Iowa Farming," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable in the post office lobby.
  • Post Office Mural - Cresco IA
    Mural entitled "Iowa Farming" painted in 1937 by Richard Haines. "Richard Haines was born here in 1906. His parents, Fred and Hattie, were pioneer farmers at the turn of the century and Richard began sketching scenes of cows and the countryside as a child. His natural born skills were sufficient to win him a scholarship at the Minneapolis School of Art, where, upon graduation, he was hired as a professor. Haines was not content with the limited artistic styles offered there, so he enrolled in the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in France... As a result of his exposure to the fine arts...