• Post Office - Elgin TX
    This post office was constructed for the town of Elgin with funds from the federal Treasury Department in 1938.
  • Post Office Mural - Elgin TX
    Painted by Texas artist Julius Woeltz, the Section of Fine Arts mural "Texas Farm" was produced in 1940. Woeltz was born in San Antonio, studied in Chicago as well as in France and Mexico, and was the head of the Department of Art at the Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas after serving in the US military during the Second World War. New Deal funding was behind the production of a number of other public art works by Woeltz, including the murals in the Amarillo Federal Building and Post Office and the Benton, AR Post Office.
  • Sewage Disposal Plant - Elgin TX
    The Works Progress Administration built a sewage disposal plant for Elgin, Texas in 1939 under project number 665-66-2-206. It was the first municipal plant to use the Hays process for sewage treatment.