• Community Building - Monticello IN
    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a combination community building and auditorium in Monticello, Indiana in 1937. The location and status of the structure is unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Post Office - Monticello IN
    The historic post office in Monticello, Indiana was constructed in 1939 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
  • Post Office Mural - Monticello IN
    The historic post office in Monticello, Indiana a 1942 Section of Fine Arts mural by Marguerite Zorach entitled "Hay Making." The scene is that of an extended family “Making Hay”, loading cut and dried hay into the horse drawn cart with children playing in the foreground on either side, a young woman working alongside the men. The scene is completed by the farmland in the background. Although the scene is hard farm labor, the artist included a woman in the center of the work and 3 of the 4 children are girls, a female artist tending to include more women in...