Post Office (former) – Ellsworth ME

City:
Ellsworth, ME

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices

New Deal Agencies:
Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department

Description

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1935. The building now houses the Emmaus Center homeless shelter. The Section of Fine Arts mural originally painted for the post office now hangs in the nearby City Hall.

Source notes

Park and Markowitz, Democratic Vistas, Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, 1984.

Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on January 28, 2013.

Location Info


51 Main St.
Ellsworth, ME 04605

Coordinates: 44.540776, -68.42523

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