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  • University Station Post Office - Seattle WA
    Seattle's historic University Station post office was constructed ca. 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses New Deal murals, is still in use today.
  • Uptown Post Office - Chicago IL
    The historic Uptown Station post office in Chicago, Illinois was constructed in 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service and houses an example of New Deal artwork.
  • Village Hall (former Post Office) - Morton IL
    Morton's historic former post office building was constructed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork (since relocated), served as a post office until the 1970s. It now serves as the Morton Municipal Building and Village Hall.
  • Village Hall (Old Post Office) - Wappingers Falls NY
    Originally the post office, this building was constructed under Treasury Department supervision during the New Deal: "The Wappingers Falls Post Office is an architecturally and historically significant public building, deriving exceptional significance from the role that President Franklin D. Roosevelt played in its design and construction. It was among five post offices in New York State built in the regional vernacular style whose design and construction were monitored by Roosevelt. Constructed in 1939-40 in the Colonial Revival style, the post office was modeled loosely after the nearby eighteenth-century Brewer-Mesier house. Although the house was frame, Roosevelt chose fieldstone and brick as...
  • Visalia Post Office - Visalia CA
    Red brick and beautiful stone detailing adorn this historic New Deal post office, whose construction began in 1933.
  • Wakefield Station Post Office - Bronx NY
    The historic Boulevard Station post office in the Bronx, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1941. The building, which contains a New Deal mural in the lobby, is still in use today.
  • Walter Reed National Military Medical Center - Bethesda MD
    The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center began life as the National Naval Medical Center under the New Deal. Congress appropriated the funds in 1937 and President Franklin D. Roosevelt selected the site in Bethesda, Maryland.   Architect Paul Cret designed a magnificent Moderne building with a tower that still delights (though much obscured by subsequent additions to the complex).  Construction began in 1939.  FDR laid the cornerstone of the famous tower on Armistice Day 1940, and the center opened soon thereafter (probably some time in 1941, not 1940 as most sources say). According to the official Center website, "The President’s vision was to...
  • Washington Street Station Post Office - Naperville IL
    Naperville's historic Washington Street Station post office was constructed as the city's main post office in 1939-40. The post office now occupies space in the south side of the building, believed to be a later addition; a bank occupies the primary portion of the historic post office structure.
  • Watts Bar Dam - Spring City TN
    "Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River ... one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river. The dam is the technical boundary between the ... Watts Bar Lake— which it impounds— and Chickamauga Lake ..." (Wikipedia)
  • Wayne Aspinall Federal Building Addition - Grand Junction CO
    "The three-story Italian Renaissance Revival style building was constructed as a post office in 1918. James A. Wetmore served as the supervisory architect. The walls are of Indiana limestone, and the tall first floor windows are set in rounded arches. A 1940 addition, funded by the PWA, extends from the rear of the building. In 1972, Congress renamed the building in honor of Wayne N. Aspinall who had a distinguished career as a U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1949 to 1973."   (www.historycolorado.org)
  • Weldon Post Office - Weldon NC
    This post office was constructed with New Deal funds in 1939.
  • Wenatchee Valley Museum (Old Post Office) - Wenatchee WA
    This US Treasury building replaced the old building in 1938. Both buildings are now part of the Wenatchee Valley Museum. "As a Depression era public works project, the proposal for replacing the old Federal building drew considerable attention from the local press. In 1933, after three years and in the middle of a series of more than 30 first and second page news articles on the subject, headlines reported 'Hope glimmers for post office building here.' "Plans for the new building were not finalized until late in 1936. Congressman Sam B. Hill secured an appropriation of $305,000 which was estimated as the...
  • West Farms Station Post Office - Bronx NY
    The historic West Farms Station post office in the Bronx, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1936. The building is still in use today.
  • West Point Mint - West Point NY
    Originally known as the West Point Bullion Depository, this facility was completed in 1937 with Treasury Department funds. "Prior to its remodel in 2005 that added a second-story, the mint was a 170-by-256-foot one-story reinforced concrete structure with a flat roof. The walls are mostly featureless with some recessed-arches at the entryways. There are four turrets at the corners actively used in the building's security. It is on a four-acre  parcel of land near the northern facilities of the United States Military Academy, with parking lots on either side. The interior contains minting presses and bullion compartments." (Wikipedia)
  • West Scranton Post Office - Scranton PA
    The historic West Scranton Branch post office building of Scranton, Pennsylvania was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which possesses a New Deal mural in the lobby, is still in use today.
  • Westville Station Post Office - New Haven CT
    New Haven's historic Westville Station post office was constructed during the Great Depression with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural inside, is still in use today.
  • William H. Natcher U.S. Courthouse - Bowling Green KY
    What is now known as the William H. Natcher U.S. Courthouse in Bowling Green, Kentucky was constructed as the United States Post Office and Courthouse in 1940-1. Construction was funded by the Treasury Department. The building also houses New Deal artwork.
  • William K. Nakamura Federal Courthouse - Seattle WA
    The Treasury Department funded the construction of the Seattle federal courthouse, which was the first single-purpose federal courthouse on the west coast.  The project was originated in 1936 by the department's Procurement Division and completed in 1940, by which time responsibility for federal facilities had been transferred to the Federal Works Administration, where the old Procurement Division had morphed into the Public Buildings Administration. The design of the courthouse is Moderne, a stripped-down and flattened version of Neoclassical, that was common for public buildings at the time.  The Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department was Louis Simon and Consulting Architect was...
  • Winston E. Arnow U.S. Courthouse - Pensacola FL
    Pensacola, Florida's historic federal building, originally constructed as Pensacola's main post office and courthouse and since renamed the Winston E. Arnow U.S. Courthouse, was constructed with Treasury Department funds and completed in 1939.
  • Woodhaven Station Post Office - Jamaica NY
    The historic Woodhaven Station post office in Jamaica, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds between 1939 and 1940. The building, which contains a New Deal Ben Shahn mural in the lobby, is still in use today.
  • Yamhill County Clerk Building - McMinnville OR
    The Yamhill County Clerk building in McMinnville, Oregon was originally constructed as the town's post office with funds from the Treasury Department during the New Deal. The building was completed in late 1935. The cornerstone has been altered to remove all trace of the building's origins, just leaving the date. This is not something one usually sees when the U.S. Postal Service sells off old post offices. Some of the interior appears to be intact, but we visited too late in the day to gain entry.
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