Post Offices Sites

The post office in Norwood, MA was constructed during the opening months of the New Deal in 1933.

The historic post office in Nowata, Oklahoma was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses New Deal artwork inside, was completed in 1940 and is still in use today.

Nutley, New Jersey's historic branch post office was built in 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds.

The O'Neill United States Post Office is a one-story, brick building constructed in 1937 in the Georgian Revival style by the US Treasury Department.

The historic post office building in New Lexington, Ohio was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds and completed in 1939. The building, which houses a New Deal mural inside, is still in use today.

The historic post office in Oak Hill, West Virginia was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1936, houses an example of New Deal artwork and is still in service.

The Oak Park post office was designed to accommodate the village’s growing population which rose from 39,858 in 1920 to 80,000 in 1930. Congress appropriated $600,000 prior to new deal legislation in 1931 with an additional $70,000 appropriated in 1935 to complete the project which had been delayed. The post office sits on a prominent parcel of downtown Oak Park which was purchased at a cost of $175,000 from the George R. Hemingway brokerage office. The building was dedicated on August 21, 1936 and remains an active post office today.

The historic post office in Oakdale, Louisiana was constructed in 1936 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.

The post office in Oakes, North Dakota was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened for business in 1935, is still in use today.

A cornerstone on the Oakland, Maryland Post Office shows it to be a project of the Federal Works Administration from 1940.

The historic post office building in Oakmont, Pennsylvania was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1941. The building, which houses New Deal artwork inside, is still in use today.

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

The Oberlin post office was constructed using Treasury Department funds and opened in late 1934.

The Treasury Department funded the construction of the Post Office in Ocean City, NJ.

This post office, constructed by the federal government in 1935, is home to Elsie Seeds's 1937 mural, "Air Mail," and Stuart Holmes's 1936 wood carving, "Eagle," both for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

Constructed by the Treasury in 1936.

Built in 1937 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The post office in Okemah was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Walter Richard "Dick" West's 1941 mural, "Grand Council of 1842," completed with funds provided by the federal government and viewable in the lobby.  

This post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1937. It briefly contained a New Deal mural painted by Harold Egan.    

The historic post office in Omak, Washington was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed ca. 1935, is still in use today.

The historic post office in Onancock, Virginia was constructed in 1936 with Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The Onawa, Iowa post office was constructed with Treasury Department funds. "The first post office in the Monona County seat of Onawa was established in 1855 and consisted of a few boxes in the corner of the Fairchild General Store. After locations in a number of local storefronts, bids were opened for a standalone post office building in May 1936. The contract was awarded to the H.W. Underhill Construction Company of Wichita, Kansas, on August 20, 1936. Work was completed at a cost of $49,720 in April 1937." (Iowa Backroads) A New Deal mural entitled "Soil Erosion and Control" was installed in...

The cornerstone of this 1940 New Deal post office lists John M. Carmody as the Federal Works Administrator and W. Engelbert Reynolds as the Commisioner of Public Buildings.

New Deal post office constructed in 1936.

The historic post office building in Orange, Massachusetts was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which opened for business in 1938, is still in use today.

The post office in Orange, Virginia was constructed in 1935 with Treasury Department funds. It is also the site of Arnold Friedman's 1937 mural, "Upland Pastures," painted for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Louis A. Simon was the Supervising Architect and Neal A. Melick was the Supervising Engineer.

The post office in Ord, Nebraska was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened in 1940, is still in use today.

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1938.

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1939-1940.

The Renaissance-revival style post office in Oroville CA was begun under President Herbert Hoover in 1932 and completed under President Roosevelt in 1933.  It is not known what portion of the funding came from the New Deal, but possibly less than half. The exterior and interior of the building are still in fine condition with original detailing. The supervising architect of the Treasury Department at the time was Frederick Meyer, but there may have been a local architect involved in the project, as was often the case.

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

Built in 1935.

The historic post office in Oswego, Kansas was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The building, built in 1939, houses New Deal artwork inside and is still in use today.

The historic post office in Ottawa, Ohio was constructed in 1938 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The historic post office building in Oxford, New York was "built in 1939-1940, 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. It is a one story, five bay, steel frame structure on a raised, poured concrete foundation with a molded brick watercourse. It is square in shape, with a slate covered hipped roof in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1941 mural by Mordi Gassner titled "Family Reunion on Clark Island: Spring 1791." It is located within...

The Oxnard Post Office was built by the Treasury Department Bureau of Public Buildings in 1939.  It is a two story building in Italian Renaissance Revival style.  It is still in active use and the original lobby is intact.

The historic 1936 post office in Oyster Bay, New York was constructed as a federally sponsored Public Works Administration (PWA) project with Treasury Department funds. A 1933 article in the Suffolk County News described the PWA allotments for this and other nearby post offices: "Actual allotments for post office buildings in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, amounting to $502,430, have been made by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. This sum will provide three new post office buildings in Suffolk and four in Nassau, as follows: Suffolk—Bay Shore, $71,270; East Hampton, $73,400; Riverhead, $81,000. Nassau—Floral Park, $67,760; Garden City, $84,300; Port...

The historic post office building in Pacific Grove, California was constructed in 1938 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural in its lobby, is still in use today. The design is "Monterey style" with tile roof(s) and stucco walls, but the bas-relief columns on the front give a classical touch.  

The historic post office building in Painted Post, New York "was designed in 1937 and built in 1937-1938 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. It is a one story, three bay structure clad in red brick in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1939 mural by Amy Jones titled 'Recording the Victory' and depicting a Revolutionary War scene."

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