Federal Building – Columbia TN

City:
Columbia, TN

Site Type:
Federal Facilities, Federal Courthouses, Post Offices

New Deal Agencies:
Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department

Started:
1940

Completed:
1941

Designers:
Louis A Simon - Architect, William Dewey Foster

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Originally constructed as the United States Post Office and Courthouse, the historic Federal Building in Columbia, Tennessee was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The building houses multiple examples of New Deal artwork.

Source notes

https://www.postofficefans.com/former-columbia-tennessee-post-office-and-court-house/ Van West, Carroll. (2001). Tennessee's New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. Additional information and photos contributed by Susan Allen.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 13, 2015.

Location Info


815 S. Garden St.
Columbia, TN 38401

Coordinates: 35.613877, -87.035367

Site Details

NDAR [email protected] created on 2008-06-28 11:03:43 -0700 NDAR [email protected] last modified on 2010-12-13 17:08:54 -0800

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