Completion Year: 1938

Built by the WPA in 1938 and still in use. It is also known as the Karl King Bandshell. "Hired to design the structure was Henry Kamphoefner, a young architect from Sioux City who had won international recognition for a pavilion which was constructed in Sioux City in 1935.  When completed in 1938 the Fort Dodge Bandshell was already considered an excellent example of Modern Movement Architecture.  It is made wholly of reinforced concrete cast in smooth-lined forms. WPA funding took care of 85% of the $45,000 cost, the City of Fort Dodge making up the remainder. The Oleson Park Music...

The post office in Okemah was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Walter Richard "Dick" West's 1941 mural, "Grand Council of 1842," completed with funds provided by the federal government and viewable in the lobby.  

The post office contains a mural entitled "Threshing Grain" painted by Richard Jansen in 1938. It was restored in 2004. Mr. Jansen also painted murals for the post offices at Sauk Centre, MN and Reedsburg, WI. Most New Deal post office murals were funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

The historic post office in Weatherford, Oklahoma was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses New Deal artwork inside, was completed in 1938 and is still in use today.

The post office contains a 1938 Section of Fine Arts mural by Grant Christian entitled "Waiting for the Mail." Wistful scene of a young woman waiting for the mail at her front gate with her faithful dog with her. The trees are large and encompass the scene lending to the sense of protection. An older woman is looking at her possibly with concern in the background stopping her chore of sweeping, probably her mother. Edward Rowan with the Treasury Section evidently suggested that the dog be included to break up the long blank fence(Park and Markowitz). Little is known about Grant Christian,...

The historic New Deal post office in the Chicopee Falls community in Chicopee, Massachusetts contains a 1938 Section of Fine Arts mural by Ernst Halberstadt entitled "History of Chicopee Falls." Richly detailed vignettes of the history of Chicopee Falls with Indians and Pilgrims on the left with game and initial settlement, progressing to a covered bridge and buildings on the right. The center is dominated by an eagle clasping the banner of US Mail Chicopee Falls. The scale is small with many locations and events pictured. Ernst Halberstadt was born in Germany and immigrated to Boston where he studied at the Massachusetts...

The post office contains a set of three murals entitled "Transportation of the Mural." The murals were funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and painted by Frank Long in 1938. The murals are a set of 3 panels showing mail delivery by rail, one showing the mail bag to be picked up by the moving train, unloading mail bags from a train, and a busy mail room. The mail room is a consummate work with the diverging and converging lines with mail in slots and workers in the center. Frank Long was born in Knoxville, TN, studied at the Art...

Philadelphia's historic Southwark Station post office contains two Section of Fine Arts murals by Robert E. Larter. The oil on canvas murals were painted in 1938 and entitled "Iron Plantation Near Southwark - 1800" and "Shipyards at Southwark - 1800." : In 1938, the Section of Fine Arts commissioned the 26 year old artist Robert E. Larter to paint two oil-on-canvas murals on opposite ends of the post office’s interior. They are respectively titled “Iron Plantation Near Southwark – 1800″ and “Shipyards at Southwark-1800.” The shipyard mural is inaccessible to the public, since the post office built a wall of mailboxes two feet...

Built by the Treasury Department in 1938.  

The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural "Building the Industrial Foundation of Batesville" painted by Orville Carroll in 1938. The size of the mural is 13'6" x 5'6" and the medium is tempera on canvas.