Start Year: 1938

Constructed by the Treasury Department as a federal post office and courthouse in 1938-39. The building is still a functioning courthouse.

Constructed by the Treasury Department and PWA in 1938, and now used as a city police station. "By the mid-1930s, Rockville’s population was about 1,500, County government had erected the Grey Courthouse, and across the street arose a stately bank in the Art Deco style.  It was time for Rockville to have a permanent post office. The Federal Government paid $35,000 for the lot on the corner of Montgomery and Washington Streets, then demolished the small frame buildings that had housed the Sentinel newspaper since 1855.  Construction began in November 1938 and cost $42,000. Rockville celebrated the dedication of the Post Office on July...

The historic New Deal post office in downtown Boone, North Carolina was constructed in 1938-9. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in use today.

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1938. The post office eventually moved to Blum Court. This building now houses the Historical Society of Harford County.

The historic New Deal post office in Bassett, Virginia was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1938. The post office is still in use today.

The Evanston Post Office was built with Treasury Department funds in 1938.

"Landscape" is an example of New Deal artwork, completed by Milton Avery in 1939 under the auspices of the Section of Fine Arts. The oil-on-canvas mural measures 12' x 4'.

Charles Kaeselau's oil-on-canvas mural "Rural New Hampshire" at the Lebanon, New Hampshire post office was painted with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds and completed in 1939.  According to the contract for the project dated Jul. 1, 1938, the mural was to be "14' wide by 4'8" high, with a total approximate area of 61 sq. ft." Mr. Kaeselau was paid $830 for the project: $200 for the preliminary design, $300 for a "full size cartoon and photograph," and $330 upon completion and approved installation of the mural.

The Mary E. Switzer Building was originally built for the Railroad Retirement Board in 1940. The building was constructed in conjunction with the original Social Security headquarters, now the Wilbur J. Cohen building.  The two stand across C street from each other.  They were the first federal buildings constructed south of the Mall.   The Railroad Retirement Board (RBB), formed in 1934, was a precursor to the Social Security Act in 1935.  Its responsibilities and funds grew with additional legislation in 1935 and 1937, providing taxes to support railway worker pensions. As plans were underway for the headquarters of Social Security, the...

Arches National Monument was established in 1929 with only 4,500 acres and enlarged dramatically to over 33,000 acres by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1938 (Arches became a National Park in 1971).  Some of the first improvements to the monument were made by workers of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).  CCC camp NP-7 was established in nearby Moab UT in April 1940 and lasted until March 1942, one of the last in the country to be closed. CCC 'boys' worked on roads, trails and erosion control, and notably a headquarters building and bridge over the wash that often blocked access to the...