Marked Sites

The historic post office in Bowling Green, Missouri was constructed in 1936 with Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service. From contributor Charles Swaney: "The entry to this post office is atypical and offset to the west side of the building. It has a brick façade with concrete accents that are depressed lines and circles symmetrically above the windows. The information stone is also atypically in the center of the south façade rather than at the end of the wall.  There is no mural in this post office."

The Post Office in Brockport, New York was built in 1940 as the village's post office. It is still in use. The cornerstone indicates that it was a project of the Federal Works Agency. Historic photographs of the building include the name of the contractor.

The post office in Brookfield was constructed in 1935 under the supervision of architect Louis A. Simon and engineer Neal A. Melick.

The historic Burley post office was constructed with Treasury Department funds in 1935. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The Camden post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1936.

The post office in Canoga Park, CA, was built in 1938 by the US Treasury Department. It is a single-story Moderne style building, typical of New Deal post offices in Southern California. Inside is a notable mural by Maynard Dixon (see linked project), which is on the National Register.

Constructed by the US Treasury in 1934.    

Built by the Treasury Department in 1938.  

The post office in Claremont, CA, was constructed by the federal Treasury Department between 1935 and 1936. The design is Spanish (or Mexican) Revival, which was very popular in Southern California at the time. Still in use today, the post office houses a New Deal mural by Milford Zornes (see linked project).

The historic Clifton, Texas post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The building is still in service.

This post office in Cooper, Texas was built in 1936 with federal funding from the Treasury Department.

The post office in Covina, CA, was completed in 1939 with Treasury Department funding. It features a traditional Henry Morgenthau Jr. cornerstone.

The post office in Cresco was completed in 1935 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Richard Haines's 1937 mural, "Iowa Farming," completed with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable in the post office lobby.

The post office in Culver City, CA, was constructed in 1940 under the Federal Works Administration (FWA). The building design is late Moderne style. It has a central recessed entrance with large windows and four pillars without capitals. There are no decorative elements on the exterior other than two large brass lamps and a flagpole holder. The interior is intact, with original tile floors, woodwork and post boxes. There is a mural at one end of the lobby (see linked project). After the federal reorganization of 1939, the agency responsible for the construction and maintenance of federal buildings—the Procurement Division, renamed the...

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 post office in Dillon, Montana was built by the Treasury Department in 1935. It is still in use and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a New Deal mural inside.

The Dover-Foxcroft post office is a simple brick colonial-revival building, completed in 1937.  It contains a fine mural by Barrie Barstow Greenbie.  It is still functioning as a post office.

The historic East Providence post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1936. The building, which houses examples of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

The East Walpole post office was constructed in 1939-1940. The mural "Early Paper Making," painted by George Kanelous, was installed above the Postmaster's door in 1941.

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1936.

The Eldon post office was completed in 1940 with the assistance of funds provided by the federal government. It is also the site of Frederick Shane's 1941 mural, "Picnic, Lake of the Ozarks," painted for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and available for view in the lobby.

Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1934.

This post office in Flora, Illinois was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1936.

The Forest Park post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1937.

The post office in Gardena, CA, was constructed in 1939 under the Federal Works Administration (FWA). After the federal reorganization of 1939, the agency responsible for the construction and maintenance of federal buildings—the Procurement Division, renamed the Public Buildings Administration—passed from the Treasury Department to the newly-formed FWA. The cornerstone lists John M. Carmody as Federal Works Administrator and W. Englebert Reynolds as Commissioner of Public Buildings. Still in use today, the post office houses a relief by Rudolph Parducci.

The historic post office in Gibson City, Illinois was constructed in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The house appropriations committee, Washington, approved treasury and post office building projects including Gladewater in Feb. 1939. Pictured here is a preliminary study of Gladewater's new post office, for which $150,000 was appropriated and on which construction bids already have been received. The one story structure will be of modern construction, brick exterior walls and a pitched Spanish tile roof, will measure 84 feet across the front and extend to a depth of 60 feet. It will be erected on the north corner of Dean Street and Pacific Avenue in Gladewater. The main entrance, centrally placed, will be flanked by three...

This Gleason TN post office was constructed by the Treasury in 1940.

The historic post office building in Groesbeck, Texas was constructed in 1937-8 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building is still in service.

The Gunnison post office was built in 1937 with federal funding.

The historic post office in Hamilton, Montana was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in the amount of $100,000.  Construction began in 1940 and was completed in 1941.   The style of the building is standard design for post offices at the time, a sort of cross between Federalist and Moderne, with flat roof and white trim around windows and the front entrance. We doubt is that the architectural plan came from the Public Works Administration, as stated on the historic marker in front; the Treasury Department's Procurement Division had its own team of architects, led by Louis Simon. A New Deal...

The historic branch post office in Hamtramck, Michigan, was constructed in 1935 with Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses multiple examples of New Deal artwork, is still in service.

Hazlehurst's Colonial Revival style post office is similar to many of the New Deal post offices constructed in Mississippi. The builder, Blair, Algernon Construction Company, was responsible for a large number of Mississippi post offices during that time. The building featured English bond brick pattern, wooden fluted Doric pilasters, a cast metal eagle over the door, terrazzo tile floor, marble wainscoting, and wooden vestibule (Enzweiler, 1992).

The Hood River post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1934-1935. It is still in service. A historical marker attached to the post office reads: "From 1901 to 1935, the Hood River United States Post Office occupied the ground floor of the Masonic Hall at 210 Second Street. This post office building was completed in September 1935 after the United States government allocated $90,000 for its construction. Erected by Hoffman Construction Company, the building was designed with elements of the popular 1930s Modernistic Style that include a flat roof, large metal sash windows with geometric designs above, and decorative...

The Post Office in Inglewood CA was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1935. It was needed because of damage to the previous post office in the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 and cost $210,000 (Gnerre 2022) The design of this two-story building is Classical Moderne, with clean, square lines, flat roof tall window openings and a stucco finish. There are lovely bas-relief sculptures over the recessed front entrance and in the front window openings between stories.  There is a carved wooden mural inside. (see linked pages) New Deal era post offices were all built by the Treasury Department, never by the Works...

The Lancaster post office was built in 1941 by the US Treasury Department, as indicated on the cornerstone.   It is a trim, one-story Art Moderne building of a familiar type of the post offices of the New Deal era – but with a distinctive tower at the NE corner.   The interior is virtually unchanged over time and includes a striking mural on the west wall by Jose Moya del Piño.

The Treasury Department funded the construction of the Lancaster NH Post Office in 1935.

The Lawrenceburg post office was completed in 1935 with Louis A. Simon as supervising architect and John W. Wolcott Jr. as architect. The original building is a "symmetrical five-by brick building" and has been extended with an addition that is in sympathetic design. Concrete American eagle medallions are inset above the windows on either side of the fanlight above the entrance doors. Replicas of the eagle medallions are also above 2 of the windows on the extension. Contractors were Forcum-James of Dyersburg.

"The Lenoir City Post Office is one of the state's most unadorned New Deal buildings as fa as its exterior style...the building's hipped roof, symmetrical five-bay facade, and understated classical entrance merely hint at Colonial Revival style" (Van West, 2001, p. 65). The post office contains the New Deal mural "Electrification" by David Stone Martin. Completed in 1940, this was "an appropriate location since TVA was then constructing the mammoth Fort Loudon Dam a mere couple of miles away" (Van West, 2001, p. 66).

The Lexington, Massachusetts branch post office was constructed with Treasury Department funds and opened for business in 1938. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service. The 1937 cornerstone reads: "Henry Morgenthau Jr Secretary of the Treasury James A Farley Postmaster General Louis A Simon Supervising Architect Neal A Melick Supervising Engineer 1937"