• Post Office - Columbus KS
    The historic post office in Columbus, Kansas was constructed in 1937 with federal Treasury Department funds. The building, which had housed an example of since-relocated New Deal artwork, is still in service.
  • Post Office Relief - Columbus KS
    This Section of Fine Arts funded terra-cotta relief entitled "R.F.D." created by Waylande Gregory in 1940 was originally installed in the Columbus post office on South Pennsylvania Ave. It is now in a local community center. The work is an unusual, large terra cotta bas relief showing a rural postman delivering the mail to a post box in the country with a group of horses in the field across the fence in the foreground. Waylande Gregory studied at the Kansas State Teacher’s College in Pittsburg, KS, the Kansas City Art Institute, the Cranbrook Foundation, and the University of Chicago. His best know...