Treasury Department Sites

Built by 1940.

The branch post office in Kingston, Pennsylvania was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1938-9. The building is still in use today. A 1941 Section of Fine Arts-funded tempera painting titled "Anthracite Coal" was painted by George Harding and hangs in the lobby.

"Post office built in 1937. An addition was made in 1983. A New Deal mural entitled "Rice Growing" hangs in the lobby."   (flickr)

The historic post office in Kingsville, Texas was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The historic post office building in Knightstown, Indiana was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office in Knoxville, Iowa was constructed in 1940 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork inside, is still in use today.

The New Deal Post Office in La Grange was constructed circa 1936-1937.

The La Jolla post office is a fine example of Mission Revival architecture, which was wildly popular in Southern California in the interwar period.  Many New Deal buildings in the region adopted this prevailing style.  The La Jolla post office is built of concrete, covered with stucco and roofed with terra cotta tiles – except on the flat-roof wings.   This post office was jointly funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and Treasury Department (US Post Office) -- possibly because the PWA invested heavily in Southern California in the wake of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Short and Brown observe, "This...

The post office in La Plata, Missouri was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The front wall below the roofline has stone bas reliefs depicting three forms of post office delivery:  train, air, and ship.

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1935, this New Deal post office is still in service. An example of New Deal artwork created for the facility has since been painted over.

Constructed in 1939.

The historic Lake George, NY post office was constructed during the Great Depression with federal funds. It is still in use today. "In 1938 Congress appropriated $75,000 for the current post office as part of an ongoing relief effort during the Great Depression. The land was acquired and construction began the next year. The new post office was opened for business early in 1941. Louis Simon, the supervising architect at the Treasury Department, used the Colonial Revival style, standard for most post offices in small communities across the country at that time. Notable features of that style in the Lake George...

The historic post office building in Lake Placid, New York "was designed and built 1935-1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one story, five bay steel framed building on a raised foundation with a cast stone watertable and clad in orange / buff colored brick. The interior features a group of murals executed in 1937 by Henry Billings."

The historic post office in Lake Providence, Louisiana was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. It was completed in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

"In August, 1937, Congress passed an appropriation bill providing a $23 million lump sum for construction of public buildings. Included in the allocation was $75,000 for a new post office for Lake Village, the seat of the Chicot County, Arkansas’ southeasternmost county. Though details of construction could not be located, the building apparently was completed by 1939."

The historic Lake Wales, Florida post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in use today.

The historic post office in Lake Worth, Florida was constructed in 1940 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The historic post office building in Lakeview, Oregon was constructed between 1938 and 1940 with federal funds. The building is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Lakeville, Connecticut was constructed using federal Treasury Department funds. A Section of Fine Arts mural hangs in the lobby. The building, which was completed in 1941, is still in use today.

The historic and distinctive post office building in Lakewood, New Jersey was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. Construction was completed in 1938. The building is still in use today.

The historic and distinctive post office in Lamar, Colorado was constructed as a New Deal project, with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. HistoryColorado.org: "Built in 1936, it is the only remaining post office of its type in Colorado. The building is an especially pleasing example illustrating the Spanish Colonial/Mediterranean influence on Neo-Classicism." The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

The Lancaster post office was built in 1941 by the US Treasury Department, as indicated on the cornerstone.   It is a trim, one-story Art Moderne building of a familiar type of the post offices of the New Deal era – but with a distinctive tower at the NE corner.   The interior is virtually unchanged over time and includes a striking mural on the west wall by Jose Moya del Piño.

The Treasury Department funded the construction of the Lancaster NH Post Office in 1935.

"US Post Office—Lancaster is a historic post office building located at Lancaster in Erie County, New York. It was designed and built 1938-1939, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a mural by Arthur Getz painted in 1940 and titled "Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989."

The historic post office in Lancaster, Wisconsin was constructed in 1938 with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office building in Langdon, North Dakota, was constructed using federal Treasury Department funds in 1937. The building, which possesses a New Deal mural in the lobby, is still in operation today.

The historic post office building in Larchmont, New York was constructed in 1937 using federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.

"The new post office was a project of the Treasury Department. Like other federal agencies during the Depression, the Treasury Department was involved in relief projects. One of the simplest ways for the Treasury Department to provide a boost to the economy was through the construction of new public buildings, mostly post offices. During the 1930s, approximately three times as many post offices were built as has been built in the previous 50 years. Though this construction was funded through various programs, including many by the PWA, all post offices were under the control of the Treasury Department."

The Lawrenceburg post office was completed in 1935 with Louis A. Simon as supervising architect and John W. Wolcott Jr. as architect. The original building is a "symmetrical five-by brick building" and has been extended with an addition that is in sympathetic design. Concrete American eagle medallions are inset above the windows on either side of the fanlight above the entrance doors. Replicas of the eagle medallions are also above 2 of the windows on the extension. Contractors were Forcum-James of Dyersburg.

The historic post office in Le Roy, New York was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1937, is still in use today.

Lebanon, New Hampshire's historic post office was constructed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

Constructed with Treasury Department funds "during the Great Depression, the U.S. Post Office is built in the Art Deco style. Above two of the windows in the main facade are bas-relief sculptures which herald the advent of air mail. Inside the lobby is another bas-relief sculpture depicting a farmer leaning against a hoe and his wife, seated reading a letter. The interior sculpture was created by a New York artist, Duncan Ferguson, who was first brought to Louisiana by Huey Long to start the art school at Louisiana State University." (toledo-bend.com) Some sources mis-attribute the building's construction to the WPA.

The historic post office in Leetonia, Ohio was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office in Lehighton, Pennsylvania was constructed in 1937 with Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.

The one-story, buff-colored brick Colonial Revival post office has granite steps, cast-iron railings, a wide limestone frieze, and wooden cornice. It is topped by an octagonal wooden cupola with louvered minor sides. It was one of 32 post offices constructed in Mississippi with Public Works Administration funds.

The historic post office in Lemont, Illinois as constructed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in use today.

"The Lenoir City Post Office is one of the state's most unadorned New Deal buildings as fa as its exterior style...the building's hipped roof, symmetrical five-bay facade, and understated classical entrance merely hint at Colonial Revival style" (Van West, 2001, p. 65). The post office contains the New Deal mural "Electrification" by David Stone Martin. Completed in 1940, this was "an appropriate location since TVA was then constructing the mammoth Fort Loudon Dam a mere couple of miles away" (Van West, 2001, p. 66).

Constructed in 1936.

The historic post office in Lewisburg, West Virginia was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1938, houses an example of New Deal artwork and is still in service.

The Lewiston post office was constructed using Treasury Department funds during 1934.