Post Offices Sites

"In September 1937, the Adams County Free Press reported Corning was one of nine towns in the state to receive funds for a new Post Office building as part of a 'seventy million dollar emergency construction fund authorized by Congress' as part of the Works Project Administration. Postmaster A. C. Peterson received information from the United States Treasury on how to proceed in plans for the Post Office, which would be opened for bidding October 4 that year. "The contract was awarded to the Church Company in Kansas City, and construction on the $75,000 building began in early 1938. Prior to...

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

The historic Coudersport post office was constructed ca. 1935 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The post office in Council Grove was completed in 1939 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Charles B. Rogers's 1941 mural, "Autumn Colors," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Department and viewable in the lobby.

The post office in Covina, CA, was completed in 1939 with Treasury Department funding. It features a traditional Henry Morgenthau Jr. cornerstone.

Covington, Kentucky's main post office was constructed with federal funds. The building opened in 1941 and is still in use today.

The historic Cranford post office was constructed in 1935-1936. The building, which houses examples of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

"The Crawford US Post Office is located at the northwest corner on 2nd and Main Streets in the commercial district of Crawford, Nebraska. It was built in the Moderne style in the late 1930s from standardized blueprints. Included in the listing are three contributing objects: two ornamental lampposts flanking the staircase to the main entrance and a flagpole. The structure has one story with a basement and measures approximately 60 by 50 feet (18 by 15 m). It is constructed of red brick with a concrete base and topped by a limestone parapet. The main entrance features an aluminum grill...

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

The post office in Cresco was completed in 1935 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Richard Haines's 1937 mural, "Iowa Farming," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable in the post office lobby.

The historic post office in Crestline, Ohio was constructed in 1941 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service today.

The historic post office building in Crooksville, Ohio was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1938. The building, which houses a New Deal relief inside, is still in use today.

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

The historic post office in Crystal Falls, Michigan was constructed ca. 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which housed an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The Crystal Springs post office building was built in 1940-41 by the US Treasury Department in the Colonial Revival style. Features include twin wooden Tuscan columns on either side of the front doors, wooden vestibule, terrazzo floor, and marble wainscoting.

The post office in Culver City, CA, was constructed in 1940 under the Federal Works Administration (FWA). The building design is late Moderne style. It has a central recessed entrance with large windows and four pillars without capitals. There are no decorative elements on the exterior other than two large brass lamps and a flagpole holder. The interior is intact, with original tile floors, woodwork and post boxes. There is a mural at one end of the lobby (see linked project). After the federal reorganization of 1939, the agency responsible for the construction and maintenance of federal buildings—the Procurement Division, renamed the...

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

The post office in Curwensville, Pennsylvania was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1938, is still in service.

The historic post office in Cushing, Oklahoma was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building was completed in 1935 and is still in use today.

The historic post office in Custer, South Dakota was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building is still in use today.

The historic post office in Cuthbert, Georgia was constructed with Treasury Department funds; its construction is sometimes mis-attributed to the WPA. The building houses an example of New Deal artwork and is still in use today.

The historic post office in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio was constructed in 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service today.

The historic post office in Danielson, Connecticut was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1935. The building is still in service.

The post office in Danvers, Massachusetts was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed between 1935 and 1937, and houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office building in Danville, Pennsylvania was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building was completed in and is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Darby, Pennsylvania was constructed in 1935 with Treasury Department funds. It is still in use today.

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

The post office in David City, Nebraska was constructed with federal funds. The building, which opened in 1935, is still in use today. In 1933, as a part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, the federal government appropriated $16,678,675 to build 237 government buildings in the United States. Nebraska received $233,600 to build five modest post offices in Wayne, Lexington, Superior, David City, and Seward. Because of the Depression, the federal government and the public found it improper for these post offices to be large so, according to the Wayne Herald, “the plan…is to erect ‘needed post offices of a sensible, utilitarian...

The De Queen Post Office was constructed in 1940 with Treasury Department funds. The Waymarking site for the post office explains that: "The DeQueen Post Office ...has a similar look to many of the Treasury Department post office buildings. This is a one-story tan brick building which is square, with a hipped roof covered with composition shingles..." It also draws our attention to the concrete cornerstone to the left of the post office entrance that reads: James A. Farley Postmaster General John M. Carmody Federal Works Administrator W. Englebert Reynolds Commissioner of Public Buildings Louis A. Simon Supervising Architect Neal A. Melick Supervising Engineer 1940

This large post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1934.

The post office in Decherd was built in 1940 with New Deal funds.

Constructed by the Treasury Department during the New Deal. The bottom of the federal cornerstone is now covered by concrete, obscuring the exact date of construction.

Constructed in 1938 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The historic post office building in Delhi, New York “was built in 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 symmetrically massed one story brick building with a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. The front section features a copper clad gable roof crowned by a square flat-topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round arched vent openings on each face… It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

The historic post office building in Delmar, New York "is a small brick building constructed in 1939, near the end of the Great Depression. Louis A. Simon, the Treasury Department's supervising architect at that time, designed 13 total post offices for New York in the Colonial Revival style similar to Delmar's. But that one was the only one from whose design he omitted a cupola."

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

The downtown post office and federal building was constructed by the federal Treasury Department in 1937.   The style is Neoclassical Moderne, clad in sandstone-colored brick, with three central vertical elements for the entrance and windows on the facade, faced with white marble. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.  

"This building was constructed in 1937 by the New Deal programs and was nominated to be included in the National Register for Historic Places on February 23, 1990. The Deming Main Post Office is a red brick, single-story building with limestone belt courses, lintels, sills, and decorative panels. Built at a bid cost of $62,400, the post office building is eligible for the National Register not only for its architecture and association with the history of federal projects in Deming, but also for the Kenneth Adams mural, 'Mountains and Yucca' located in the lobby. This piece is specifically mentioned as contributing...

The historic post office in Dennison, Ohio was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1939. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The historic post office building in Depew, New York "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 building is still in use today.