- City:
- Indianola, MS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designers:
- Louis A Simon - Supervising Architect, Neal Melick - Supervising Engineer
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.
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
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 9, 2014.
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