Doylestown Sites

"During the Depression, the federal government sought to boost the economy through public works, ranging from massive dams to local post offices. Doylestown had outgrown its post office, located on East State Street at Printer's Alley. In 1934, a new post office was built at South Main and West Ashland streets."   (doylestown.patch.com) A new post office building was constructed during the mid-1980s and a 1937 New-Deal mural, "William Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory" was moved thereto. The Depression-era post office is now privately owned.

The mural "William Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory" was painted for the historic (former) post office building in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The mural now resides in the lobby of Doylestown's newer, mid-1980s post office. "Charles Child, a 35-year-old artist who lived in Lumberville, was selected to create a mural for the Doylestown office in 1937. For his mural, Child chose to depict the founders of Bucks County and Doylestown. ... Child completed the mural in November 1937. The mural, 11 feet wide and 4 feet high, is divided into a 6-foot-wide center panel flanked by two smaller panels."   (doylestown.patch.com)