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  • Post Office - Stilwell OK
    The historic and stately New Deal post office in Stilwell, Oklahoma was constructed in 1940. The building houses an example of New Deal artwork and is still in service.
  • Harney County Courthouse - Burns OR
    This structure was constructed with WPA help, but did not receive sought-for PWA funding: "Forty years later, the November 4, 1938 Burns Times-Herald called the courthouse “antiquated poorly arranged.” Voters were deciding whether the county should construct a new $100,000 courthouse, with 45 percent of the cost to be paid by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). With such largess, the issue passed, and the county judge immediately traveled to Portland to present a request to the PWA official. But the PWA refused the request; later newspaper accounts blamed either incomplete plans or that the county’s part of the funding...
  • Post Office - Dundalk MD
    The historic post office building in Dundalk, Maryland was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds beginning in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork in its lobby, is still in use today.
  • Post Office (former) - Ashland VA
    This former post office building was constructed by the Treasury Department for Ashland in 1940. The building is still standing, but is now privately owned.
  • Post Office - Palmyra MO
    The historic post office in Palmyra, Missouri was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
  • Post Office (former) - Des Plaines IL
    What is now the "... Journal & Topics building served as Des Plaines’ main post office from 1941 to 1974. Even though the Des Plaines Post Office’s building had only been built in 1930, by 1938 the volume of mail handled by had increased enough to warrant a new, larger facility. Scouting the city for the ideal location, the Federal Works Agency of the Public Buildings Administration found it directly next door, at the corner of Graceland and Webford. The contract to build the $135,000 building was let on March 1, 1940 with a target opening date of January 1, 1941. In...
  • Post Office - Chillicothe IL
    Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1940.
  • Post Office Murals - Rhinebeck NY
    The Rhinebeck post office contains a series of twelve murals (plus those over the windows) depicting scenes from local history. The murals were painted by Olin Dows in 1940 with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funding.  Dows was a Rhinebeck resident , trained at Vassar College and head of the Treasury Relief Art Program – no doubt brought in by the request of President Roosevelt, who had taken a keen interest in the Rhinebeck post office near his home in Hyde Park.   The artist provided a thorough explanation of all the panels in a pamphlet published in 1940 by the Civic...
  • Post Office Murals - Poughkeepsie NY
    The Poughkeepsie post office has five large murals on the walls depicting local scenes from the 17th to 20th centuries.  Two horizontal murals at either end of the lower lobby are views of Poughkeepsie from across the Hudson in 1839 and 1940; those are by Georgina Klitgaard and Charles Rosen, respectively. On the mezzanine floor are three murals by Gerald Foster. One depicts Pilgrims and Indians on the site of Poughkeepsie in 1692. The second shows the hamlet of Poughkeepsie in 1730 (not shown here).   The third and largest one shows delegates from New York meeting in Dutchess County to ratify...
  • Post Office - Moravia NY
    The historic post office in Moravia, New York was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which was constructed in 1940-1 and houses an example of New Deal artwork inside, is still in use today.
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