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Post Office Mural – Middleport NY

"Rural Highway"

"Rural Highway"

"Rural Highway"

Photo: Jimmy Emerson , Source Creative Commons 2008

"Rural Highway"

"Rural Highway"

Project type: Art, Murals
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Description

The post office contains a mural by Marianne Appel entitled “Rural Highway” and painted in 1941. Appel won the commission in a competition held by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

 

Source notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_%28Middleport,_New_York%29
http://www.wpamurals.com/newyork.htm

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Location Info

42 Main St.
Middleport, NY 14105

Coordinates: 43.211317, -78.476495

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