Location: Downtown Post Office - San Diego CA

Downtown Station Post Office – San Diego CA

San Diego Post Office, downtown

The old Main Post Office for San Diego, now the Downtown Station post office, was constructed with Treasury Department funds and houses Archibald Garner’s 1937 sculpture, “Transportation of the Mail,” produced under the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

Downtown Post Office Bas Relief – San Diego CA

"The Transportation of the Mail," relief

Archibald Garner won the Treasury funded competition for ornamentation of the San Diego Post Office and produced these nine glazed, terra-cotta relief panels illustrating the theme “Transportation of the Mail.”