Post Office – Tylertown MS

Another Colonial Revival style post office built under the New Deal is the Tylertown post office. It was constructed in 1940, the last of the five post offices built between 1931-1940 by the Columbia & Hattiesburg firm of Dye &… read more

Post Office Mural – Tylertown MS

Lucile Blanch (aka Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch, & Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) painted “Rural Mississippi-From Early Days to Present” for the Tylertown, Mississippi post office. According to Deborah Purnell (2004), it was “actually a fresco painted directly onto the… read more