- Post Office - New Hampton IAThe post office in New Hampton was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Thomas Savage's 1939 mural, "Breaking the Colts," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable in the lobby.
- Post Office Mural - Freeland PAThe historic post office building in Freeland, Pennsylvania houses a New Deal mural funded by the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. The oil-on-canvas mural "Freeland," painted by John F. Folinsbee, was completed in 1938 and is viewable in the post office lobby.
- Post Office - Shelton WAThe post office in Shelton was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Richard Haines's 1940 mural, "Skid Row," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable in the lobby.
- Fort Negley Reconstruction - Nashville TNThe New Deal did a great deal of work restoring and improving historic battlefields around the country in the 1930s. As part of this effort, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) restored Fort Negley in 1937-38. This was an important Confederate fortification during the Civil War. Using the original plans, 800 relief workers of the WPA reconstructed the limestone fort at a cost of $84,000. Fort Nagley reopened to the public in 1938. It is still an historical attraction in Nashville and has a new visitor's center and informative historical markers.
- Post Office Mural - Ames IALowell Houser painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled "The Evolution of Corn," in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Houser was a local Iowa artist who studied for a number of years in Mexico, where he was taken with Aztec sculptures he encountered in museums there, which accounts for this mural's style. "In an oral history interview with the artist dated July 31, 1964, he discusses the conception and execution of the mural. Houser states that he came up with the concept that the cultivation of corn was historically Maya 'or at least, ancient American...
- Post Office - Georgetown OHThe post office in Georgetown was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Richard Zoellner's 1938 mural, "Tobacco Harvest," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable in the lobby.
- Post Office Mural - Georgetown OHRichard Zoellner painted this 6 1/4' x 13' oil on canvas mural, entitled "Tobacco Harvest," in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the lobby of the Georgetown post office. “Only a quarter of the artists who prepared murals in Ohio post offices were native to the state. Among them was Richard Zoellner, a native of Portsmouth and former student at the Cincinnati Art Academy, who may have witnessed the annual Brown county tobacco harvest and prepared this familiar scene for the Georgetown Post Office.” (wpamurals.org)
- Post Office Mural - Lewisburg TNJohn H. R. Pickett painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled "Coming 'Round the Mountain," in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The former US Postal Service facility located at 121 S. 1st St., is now located to the new facility at 557 E. Commerce St., Lewisburg, TN 37091. The mural was also relocated to the new facility.
- Winooski River Local Protection Project - VTThe Winooski River Local Protection Project is located along a 6.5-mile stretch of the Winooski River which flows through Montpelier, Berlin, Moretown, and Middlesex. The Winooski River Local Protection Project protects several thousand acres of farmland and reduces flood damage in downstream communities, including Montpelier, Middlesex, Waterbury, and Duxbury. The project consisted of replacing an old timber dam at Montpelier by a small concrete dam (now called Bailey Dam); clearing and grading one mile of river bank above the dam, enlarging the channel, and adding rip-rap; and removing projecting ledges and points that restricted river flows at five spots between...
- Waterbury Dam - Waterbury VTThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) combined efforts to construct the Waterbury Dam in Waterbury, Vermont during the Great Depression. On November 3 and 4, 1927, torrential rains created a disastrous flood that paralyzed Vermont. Little River’s rising waters drove the valley residents to their roofs and isolated the hillside farmers. Fifty-five people in the Winooski Valley lost their lives, and property damage was estimated at $13,500,000. A second flood occurred in 1934. These events spurred a plan by the US Army Corps of Engineers to built a set of four dams in central Vermont from...