Federal Facilities Sites

The former post office in Arlington, Texas was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. (Construction is sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA.) The building contains an example of New Deal artwork: "Gathering Pecans." Having since been sold, the building is now privately owned; it is presently home to Worthington National Bank.

This former post office building was constructed by the Treasury Department for Ashland in 1940. The building is still standing, but is now privately owned.

The historic post office building in Baldwinsville, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was completed in 1937, housed a New Deal mural (since relocated to the present post office in Baldwinsville). The New Deal post office is now privately owned.

The historic former post office in Batesburg(, Batesburg-Leesville), South Carolina was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1939. The building houses an example of New Deal artwork. In the 1980s, the cities of Batesburg & Leesville combined into one city and a new post office was constructed. As of 2013, the old New Deal Batesburg post office had been sold and left vacant by its new owners.

This former post office building was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1940. The one-story brick building has a basement. Wright (2003) described the building, "...a copper visor over the front entrance...recessed windows...decorative dentil work around the top perimeter and between recessed window openings...iron railing on front facade." This building is now used as a private law office. This post office originally contained the mural "Cotton Plantation" by Eve Kottgen, completed in 1942. The current location of the mural is on the work floor of the new post office building where it is not visible to the public.

The historic former post office building in Baxley, Georgia was constructed in 1935 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building now serves Appling County.

The Colonial Revival-style post office building in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi was constructed by Dye and Mullings on behalf of the federal Treasury Department. It is now privately owned.

Constructed by the Treasury in 1934, this building has recently been renovated and converted into private offices for the law firm Doty & Miller: "Shifting their design efforts to preservation, Doty & Miller consulted blueprints obtained from the Bedford Historical Society so they could re-create the original lobby features and restore the exterior to its 1934 appearance. In addition to the LEED certification, the project also received awards from the Cleveland Restoration Society, which recognized it as an adaptive reuse that also preserved historic architecture."   (https://blog.preservationnation.org)

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1938. The post office eventually moved to Blum Court. This building now houses the Historical Society of Harford County.

The historic former post office in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania was constructed in 1940 with Treasury Department funds. The building, which also received an example of New Deal artwork, now houses the Southwest Regional Police Department.

The historic former post office building in Benton, Arkansas was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The building presently houses the Salvation Army. An example of New Deal artwork created for the building has since been relocated.

The historic New Deal post office building in Bethesda MD – sometimes misattributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) – was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1937. The Neo-Georgian building was constructed out of native stone trucked in from Stoneyhurst Quarries on River Road... (www.bethesdamagazine.com) The post office remained in use until 2012, when "faced with mounting financial difficulties, the USPS  closed it in 2012 and sold it for $4 million to the Donohoe Companies." The New Deal mural from the post office has been restored and was relocated to Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center in 2013.

One of the few municipal projects to be funded through the Hoover Administration's 1931 general appropriations bill (Pub. L. No. 869, 46 Stat. 1552, 1587), the former Post Office in Beverly Hills, CA, was completed by the Treasury Department in 1933. "The prominent and prolific Architect Ralph C. Flewelling, designer of buildings at UCLA and USC, in concert with Alison & Alison Architects, received the commission for the Italian Renaissance Revival style building. The Post Office officially opened in 1934 and was dedicated in 1936 under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration" (see "Building History"). Of the post office, architect Flewelling said:...

The historic former post office in Big Spring, Texas was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, presently serves as the 118th District Courthouse.

This former post office was built with Treasury funding in 1940. The building has been sold and now contains private offices. The mural is still on display and may be viewed with permission of the owner.

The historic former post office building in Blawnox, Pennsylvania was constructed ca. 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which is now privately owned, houses an example of New Deal artwork.

The Old Borger post office, located at the northeast corner of 5th Ave. and Diehl Streets, is now privately owned. The Hutchinson County Herald stated that the PWA allotted $53,900 in funding the the building.

The Transylvania County Administration building at 101 South Broad Street in Brevard, North Carolina was originally constructed as a New Deal post office. The post office was one of several similar Federal/Greek Revival-style facilities in western North Carolina. Per The Transylvania Times: "On Aug. 3, 1938 bids were received on 10 sites available in the downtown Brevard. A lot on the corner of Broad and Morgan streets was purchased from Mrs. Beulah Zachary for $4,000 on May 5, 1939. Groundbreaking took place on May 6, 1940. The Post Office began operating from the building in January 1941." "The building served as the...

The one-story brick Colonial Revival building has four original 32-light display windows, original paired eight-light wood and glass doors, with wooden surround and broken pediment over the door . The building has a brick parapet, stone cornice with ornamentation, and stone window lintels. Sometime between the 1960s and 1980s (records differ), a new post office was built and the facility was sold and converted to a furniture store.

The historic post office building in Burlingame, California was constructed during the early 1940s with federal funds. The building was sold to private interests in September 2014 and ceased its postal operations in January 2015. Part of the building and its artwork have been incorporated into a new adaptive reuse project.

The historic former post office in Cairo, Georgia was constructed ca. 1935 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork, now houses the Grady County Board of Education.

The historic former post office building in Caldwell, Texas was constructed in 1936 with Treasury Department funds. As of 2022 the building houses a restaurant, aptly named The Old Post Office. The post office had housed an example of New Deal artwork, which has since been relocated to the nearby Burleson County Courthouse.

The historic former post office building in Campbell, Ohio was constructed ca. 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork, is privately owned. Unfortunately, much of the concrete details on the building's front, including the cornerstone, has been stripped off. Google Street View imagery of the building from 2011 shows that the cornerstone has been abused, and that the text has been largely destroyed. Fortunately, the New Deal mural had been removed from the facility into Campbell's 'new' post office.

In 1936, the Campbellsville post office was built with funding from the Treasury Department. It is currently the home of the legal firm Bertram, Cox, and Miller. The murals once installed in the post office are listed as destroyed.

The historic New Deal post office in Canton, North Carolina is privately owned.

A new post office and federal building was constructed in 1935 in Carlsbad, New Mexico at the northeast corner of W Fox St. and S Halagueno St., with Treasury Department funds. The building had housed an example of New Deal artwork, now housed in the Carlsbad Museum. In 1964 the Carlsbad Current-Argus reported on a time capsule located in the Depression-era building's cornerstone: "Construction workers are tearing down parts of the structure which will become part of a new federal building at the same site. Various Eddy County memorabilia were placed in the box when the cornerstone was laid on April 13,...

The historic former post office in Center, Texas was constructed in 1938 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork (since relocated to the current Center post office), is now privately owned.

The historic former post office building in Chagrin Falls, Ohio was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1939. The building is now privately owned. It housed an example of New Deal artwork, which has since been relocated.

The historic former post office in Chelsea, Michigan was constructed ca. 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork, is no longer a post office; its present use is unknown to Living New Deal.

The historic Claremore, Oklahoma post office (later Federal Building) was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building was completed in 1935 and was in disuse as of 2009.

The Colonial Revival style former post office was constructed in 1934, and currently is used as the Cleveland Police Department. The building was the first federal building constructed in Bolivar County (Fazio, et al., 1979).

The former post office building, located at 200 Union Street, in Clinton, Massachusetts, was constructed with Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. An example of New Deal artwork, which had been created for the then-new building, has since been relocated.

The historic former post office building in Clinton, Tennessee was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1937. The building housed an example of New Deal artwork that has since been relocated.

The historic former post office building in Cocoa, Florida was constructed in 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is now home to the State Headquarters of the Florida Historical Society.

The Treasury Department funded the construction of the former Post office in Corbin, KY. The structure was built on East Center Street (now Roy Kidd Avenue). Today, the former Post Office serves as the Corbin Independent School District Building. The building is located at the northwest corner of Roy Kidd Avenue (formerly East Center Street) and North Depot Street. The building is a flat lot overlooking a sloping road that runs from Main (US 25) eastward to go under the railroad.

The old post office in Cornelia was built with New Deal funds in 1937. The building now houses dental offices.

The historic former post office building in Covington, Georgia was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. The building served the Newton County Library system for a time, but it is now privately owned.

Now the Covington School Board Annex, Covington, Louisiana's then-new post office was constructed with U.S. Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, was completed in 1938.

"When construction was completed in 1940, Crossett reveled in the addition of the 'pleasing green' stucco building that was designed using a combination of Art Deco, Greek Revival, and International architectural syles" (Arkansas Historic Preservation Program). The post office cost $70,000 to build, and housed the post office until 1968. The postal service sold the building to the city for $1 to house the new public library. The library remained in the building until 2002, and the former post office is currently home to the Crossett Economic Development Foundation. "In terms of design, this is a building built decades ahead of...

Originally built as the Crossville, TN post office in 1937. It is now used as a private business. A mural originally painted for this post office has been relocated to the current post office on Old Jamestown Hwy.