Completion Year: 1937

Artist Seymour Fogel painted two murals, entitled "African Music and European Music" and "Religious and Modern Music", in the Music Room (Room 327) of the Abraham Lincoln High School in 1936-37.  The New York Schools website shows only a portion of the first mural on its excellent Public Art for Public Schools pages, so it is uncertain if the latter mural is still extant.

Kansas City's Southeast High School was constructed as part of a New Deal project during the Great Depression. The Public Works Administration (PWA) supplied a grant of $500,000 toward the construction of multiple school buildings, for which construction occurred between 1934 and 1938. Total construction cost for the multiple-school project was about $1.75 million. Southeast High School bears both a cornerstone and plaque dating it to 1937. PWA Docket No. 2409.

The Sunbeam Hot Springs was greatly improved for public use by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).  In 1937, enrollees from the Clayton CCC Camp built a bathhouse on a walled, concrete platform overlooking the Salmon River, with two access stairways from the road above, a pump house (?), and a paved path down to the river. Bathers  could change in the bathhouse and proceed down the path to the river, where the hot springs water from the hillside mixes with river water. The bathhouse is not used today. An information panel next to the bathhouse reads: "The bathhouse was completed in 1937...

The former Idaho National Guard Armory in Boise, Idaho was substantially expanded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936-37.  Building was begun in 1931, then work stopped;  most of the structure was added in 1936-37; and the second floor was finished in 1956.   The nomination form for putting the building on the National Register gives more details: "The building consists of three distinct sections: front (containing office space), center (containing the drill hall), and rear (originally containing the stables-now a garage and maintenance shop). While the entire building was designed as a single unit, it was built in several stages....

The historic Bellevue, Ohio post office houses a 1937 Section of Fine Arts mural by Paul Meltsner entitled "Ohio." Meltsner’s “Ohio” is a brightly colored view of the industries of Ohio and the work of the people, agriculture to the left, with a powerful tractor in the center, a boat with ore and a factory to the right in the background. Note that by contrast to works by women artists, no women are included in this mural. Condition issues exist, unfortunately. Paul Meltsner was born in New York and studied at the National Academy of Design. He was a strong example of...

The Winslow Headstart building, originally the Winslow Clubhouse, was built in 1937 by relief workers employed by the Work Progress Administration (WPA).   "The Winslow Clubhouse (now Headstart) is a good example of the Winslow community’s desire for adaptive reuse. The building features many interesting details: hand-carved doors, inset "steer-head" designs in the stone wall, and hand-painted tiles gracing the patio steps... The clubhouse and the stadium were constructed in 1937 and funded by the WPA."

This large post office was constructed with U.S. Treasury Department funding between 1935 and 1937. Note the extensive use of inlaid depictions of postal service, state of the art at the time. Inside, the grillwork is lush as are the center islands where patrons were able to fill out forms, etc.

The historic Gwen B. Giles Station post office—also known as Wellston Station (prior to a Congressional renaming)—in St. Louis, Missouri contains a 1939 Section of Fine Arts mural by Lumen Winter entitled "Old Levee and Market at St. Louis." The mural depicts a view of the St. Louis levee to the right with a steamboat and the market to the left in the background. There are contrasting groupings in the foreground with a family hurrying to get out of the way of the stagecoach which the driver is attempting to slow despite the wildness of the black horse. By contrast, the...

The historic Gwen B. Giles Station post office—also known as Wellston Station (prior to a Congressional renaming)—in St. Louis, Missouri, was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds between 1936 and 1937. The building, which houses a New Deal mural inside, is still in use today.

In 1937, Moscow-born artist Anton Refregier painted an oil-on-canvas mural for the visitors room at Rikers Island Penitentiary (today's James A. Thomas Center). Refregier painted the mural, titled "Home and the Family," with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project (FAP). According to the New York Correction History Society, "the larger-than-life scene looked out on a big room whose occupants could view it full spectrum. The Rikers mural reflects a frequent WPA art theme: By working together—whether on a farm, in a forest, or in industry—people can build a better life for themselves, their family, their country. "When the Rikers Island...