Federal Building - Columbia TN

City:: Columbia, TN
Site Type:: Federal Facilities, Post Offices, Federal Courthouses
New Deal Agencies:: Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
Started:: 1940
Completed:: 1941
Designers:: Louis A Simon - Architect, William Dewey Foster
Quality of Information:: Moderate
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

Originally constructed as the United States Post Office and Courthouse, the historic Federal Building in Columbia, Tennessee was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The building houses multiple examples of New Deal artwork.

Source notes

https://www.postofficefans.com/former-columbia-tennessee-post-office-and-court-house/ Van West, Carroll. (2001). Tennessee's New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. Additional information and photos contributed by Susan Allen.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 13, 2015.