Post Office – Corning IA

“In September 1937, the Adams County Free Press reported Corning was one of nine towns in the state to receive funds for a new Post Office building as part of a ‘seventy million dollar emergency construction fund authorized by Congress’… read more

Post Office Mural – Corning IA

"Band Concert"

This egg-tempera-on-gesso mural was painted by Marion Gilmore in 1941. From When Tillage Begins: The Stone City Art Colony and School: “Gilmore won the WPA commission to produce a mural for the town of Corning, Iowa. The jury, led by… read more