Longmont Sites

Sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the historic former post office at 501 5th Avenue in Longmont, Colorado was a New Deal project funded by the Treasury Department. The building presently (as of 2018) houses the Aspen Center for Child Development. This building is the most visible local symbol of the Federal Government's efforts to provide economic relief to the nation during the Great Depression. In 1933, the Roosevelt Administration initiated the National Recovery Act. One facet of this program was to stimulate industrial production by pouring money into the economic life of the nation through a program of public...

"Ways of the Mail," was completed with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts by Arnold Rönnebeck in 1937. It consists of three (3) terra cotta relief panels, totaling 8 feet. Its current location is unknown. Per a letter or document dated October 26, 1937, Rönnebeck stated: The three parts of the panel represent symbolically the “Ways of the Mail” in the early years of Colorado territory and today." Miraculously, the building at 501 5th Avenue, Longmont, CO, is still there and was designated a historical landmark 1988. It is assumed, but not known for sure, that when the USPS moved...