• Gymnasium - Tylertown MS
    The WPA project for the gymnasium/band building for Tylertown High School was approved January 1939 and construction began in February. The monolithic concrete gym was proposed for 120 x 110 feet, with a playing floor of 80 x 50. Each side held bleachers with locker and dressing rooms underneath. The band room was proposed for 40 x 22 and could be converted into a stage by removal of a partition. The use as an auditorium would enable capacity for about two thousand people.
  • Post Office - Tylertown MS
    Another Colonial Revival style post office built under the New Deal is the Tylertown post office. It was constructed in 1940, the last of the five post offices built between 1931-1940 by the Columbia & Hattiesburg firm of Dye & Mulling. It contains a mural by Lucile Blanch, "Rural Mississippi--From Early Days to Present" that was completed in 1941.
  • Post Office Mural - Tylertown MS
    Lucile Blanch (aka Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch, & Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) painted "Rural Mississippi-From Early Days to Present" for the Tylertown, Mississippi post office. According to Deborah Purnell (2004), it was "actually a fresco painted directly onto the wall" and Blanch was "one of the few artists who actually painted the mural in the same town for which the work was commissioned. She took great pleasure in talking to townsfolk about the progress of the painting, and they, in turn, enjoyed seeing places they knew develop in the work." The mural was completed in 1941. Blanch, born in Hawley,...