Start Year: 1937

The historic post office building in downtown New Rochelle, New York "is a Moderne building built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the result of a Multiple Property Submission that included 148 post office buildings in the state of New York." (Wikipedia) The post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds and is still in use today.

The historic post office building in Homer, New York "was built in 1937-1938 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, steel frame, five bay rectangular building clad in brick on a stucco clad foundation in the Colonial Revival style." The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The interior of New York's Madison Square Station post office features eight tempera-on-plaster murals entitled "Scenes of New York" (1937-1939), commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts funding.  Four panels are found on each the right and left wall of the post office lobby, surrounding the central postal clerk counters. Professor Dolkart of Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation notes that seven of the eight McLeary murals represent different New York City neighborhoods. In each neighborhood shown, someone is depicted doing a mail-related activity: "Lower East Side (reading a letter to a group); Broadway (carrying a letter); Central Park (reading...

The historic post office building in Rockville Centre, New York "was built in 1937 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect. It is a one-story building clad with brick and trimmed in limestone in the Colonial Revival style. It features an Art Deco style grill above the main entrance doors." (Wikipedia)

The Canal Street Station post office in downtown Manhattan was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1937. It was designed by architect Alan Balch Mills.  The  two story building in the Moderne Style is clad in terra cotta panels,  with a black base, buff walls and a silvery frieze along the top.  A Treasury Section of Fine Arts-funded sculpture was installed in the post office lobby in 1938. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

The downtown post office and federal building was constructed by the federal Treasury Department in 1937.   The style is Neoclassical Moderne, clad in sandstone-colored brick, with three central vertical elements for the entrance and windows on the facade, faced with white marble. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.  

The Federal Arts Project section of the New Deal Program employed men and women with different artistic talents for depictions of American life that would be on display in federal buildings and newly built buildings. Although the Independence Park field house, (located at 3945 N. Springfield) was not a new development (it was built in 1914), a WPA painting by M.R Decker was created for display in the field house auditorium in 1937, a few years after the 22 independent park agencies of Chicago formed to become the Chicago Park District. This painting is entitled "Spirit of 1776", and depicts...

The Tumacácori National Monument was set aside by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 to protect the ruins of the Mission of San Jose de Tumacacori.  In 1918, it came under the administration of the National Park Service and its regional 'custodian', Frank Pinkley.  Congress created the Tumacácori National Historic Park in 1990, adding the ruins of two nearby missions, Los Santos Angeles de Guevavi and San Cayetano de Calabazas. Under the park service's guidance, Tumacácori mission church and its dependencies were stabilized in 1920-21, but intentionally not restored.  Only with the aid of the New Deal did the park come to...

“Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City was one of the largest high school football stadiums built as a WPA project in Oklahoma. In fact, it took several approved projects to complete the facility.”  (Barton) A waymarking submitter describes the stadium as follows: "Facing May Avenue, this is a native rock wall, approximately three stories high. It is immediately recognizable as a WPA project with its distinctive look. High above the center of the wall, in stone is a circular monogram reading TAFT and beneath that STADIUM. There are six large, arched entries, and six ticket windows. All are filled with wood. High on...

An addition to the old Martin County courthouse in Stuart, Florida was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The facility now serves as a cultural center. The PWA supplied a $12,272 grant for the project, whose total cost was $26,886. Construction occurred between March and June 1937. Wikipedia: "The Old Martin County Court House, built in 1937, is an historic Art Deco style courthouse building located at 80 East Ocean Boulevard in Stuart, Martin County, Florida. ... On November 7, 1997, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building was designed by architect L....