Charles Anton Kaeselau Sites

This mural painted by Charles Anton Kaeselau, titled "Battle at the Bridge," depicts one of the most famous battles of the revolutionary war. This mural is hung proudly at the Concord Post Office, another New Deal Project that was funded by the Treasury Department and completed in 1938. The site depicted in this mural, The Old North Bridge, still stands today, located just a mile north of the U.S. Post Office building it resides in. The mural, which is an oil on canvas painting, was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and was completed in 1941. Fought on April...

Charles Kaeselau's oil-on-canvas mural "Rural New Hampshire" at the Lebanon, New Hampshire post office was painted with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds and completed in 1939.  According to the contract for the project dated Jul. 1, 1938, the mural was to be "14' wide by 4'8" high, with a total approximate area of 61 sq. ft." Mr. Kaeselau was paid $830 for the project: $200 for the preliminary design, $300 for a "full size cartoon and photograph," and $330 upon completion and approved installation of the mural.