Post Office – Tylertown MS

City:
Tylertown, MS

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices

New Deal Agencies:
Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department

Designer:
Supervising Architect of Treasury

Contractor:
Dye Mullins Inc.

Marked:
Yes

Description

Another Colonial Revival style post office built under the New Deal is the Tylertown post office. It was constructed in 1940, the last of the five post offices built between 1931-1940 by the Columbia & Hattiesburg firm of Dye & Mulling.

It contains a mural by Lucile Blanch, “Rural Mississippi–From Early Days to Present” that was completed in 1941.

Source notes

Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Retrieved fromhttps://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov).

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on April 7, 2013.

Location Info


622 Beulah Avenue
Tylertown, Mississippi 39667
Walthall County

Coordinates: 31.1267324, -90.17005

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