Post Office Sculpture – Haddon Heights NJ

City:
Haddon Heights, NJ

Site Type:
Art Works, Sculptures

New Deal Agencies:
Arts Programs, Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP)

Artist:
Isamu Noguchi

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

With Treasury Relief Arts Program funding, Isamu Noguchi produced this cast stone relief entitled “The Letter” for display at the Haddon Heights post office in 1939. Noguchi is best known for his bas-relief “News” on the exterior of 40 Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Ironically, then-postmaster of Haddon Heights, Henry McKay, objected to the installation, but it has remained to delight generations of local residents.  

 

 

 

Source notes

Kevin Riordan, At the Haddon Heights Post Office, the work of a renowned sculptor has been hiding in plain sight | Kevin Riordan" Philadelphia News, October 17, 2018.

Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry: https://www.newdealartregistry.org/

Site originally submitted by New Deal Art Registry on July 19, 2013.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker.

Location Info


701 Station Ave
Haddon Heights, NJ 8035.0

Location notes: Lobby

Coordinates: 39.881552, -75.06037

Site Details

created on 2011-03-20 14:40:33 -0700 last modified on 2011-03-20 14:44:34 -0700

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