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Cedar Avenue Complex – Lancaster CA

The Cedar Avenue Complex was constructed in 1938 with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA). It began life as a county civic center in Lancaster CA, forty years before that city was incorporated (1977).   It included a library, memorial hall,… read more

Project type: Civic Facilities, Auditoriums and Arenas, Auxiliary Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local), Education and Health, Libraries
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Post Office – Lancaster CA

Lancaster Post Office

The Lancaster post office 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.  It was built in 1941 by… read more

Project type: Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices
Agency: Treasury Department

Post Office Mural – Lancaster CA

The Lancaster CA post office contains a striking oil-on-canvas mural by Spanish-born painter Jose Moya del Pino, who moved to San Francisco in the 1930s and worked on the famous Coit Tower murals.  The mural is called “Hauling Water Pipe… read more

Project type: Art Works, Murals
Agency: Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Treasury Department

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