The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, originally the US Post Office Department, was begun under the Hoover Administration and completed under the New Deal in 1934. It is richly decorated with New Deal artworks paid for by the Treasury Section… read more
The exterior of the Madison Square Station post office sports five bronze reliefs above its main entrance (on 23rd St.) known, collectively, as “Communication.” Three were cast by Edmond R. Amateis and two by Louis Slobodkin in 1937, with funding from… read more
Louis Slobodkin produced two 3′ x 6′ cast-stone reliefs for the post office: “Mills Digging Tunnel” and “Mohawk Trail Workers.” The reliefs were created with support from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.