Indianola Post Office front elevation
Description
This one-story Art Moderne style post office was built in 1935. It originally contained a New Deal mural, “White Gold in the Delta.” The mural was destroyed in the 1960s.
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Indianola Post Office Building
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Indianola Post Office cornerstone
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural
Burnett, G. E. (2011). Post office mural raises questions of racial sensitivity. The Dispatch. Retrieved from https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=9619
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 9, 2014.
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