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  • Police Department Administration Building - Baton Rouge LA
    Originally the Louisiana State School for the Deaf, this neoclassical design building is now an administration building for the Baton Rouge Police Department.
  • Port Allen Middle School - Port Allen LA
    "Port Allen is a town of 1,500 inhabitants, across the Mississippi from Baton Rouge. Its new high school is 1 story and part 2 stories in height and contains on the first floor 10 classrooms, administrative offices, and a first-aid room. The second floor has the science laboratories and an office. Connected with the building is the auditorium with a seating capacity of 700, a well-equipped stage and dressing rooms. The wall construction is concrete with a machine-rubbed finish on exterior. The project was completed in July 1938 at a construction cost of $158,795 and a project cost of $169,693." (Short...
  • Post Office - Arabi LA
    The Arabi post office was constructed during 1936 and 1937 with federal funding. The building is still in use today
  • Post Office - Arcadia LA
    The historic post office in Arcadia, Louisiana was constructed in 1937 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Bastrop LA
    The historic former post office building in Bastrop, Louisiana was completed in 1935 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which has been extensively modified, is still in service, and still bears its original cornerstone.
  • Post Office - Bunkie LA
    The historic post office in Bunkie, Louisiana was constructed in 1937 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Donaldsonville LA
    The historic Donaldsonville post office was constructed by the Treasury in 1937. The building is still in use.
  • Post Office - Eunice LA
    The historic post office in Eunice, Louisiana was constructed in 1938-9 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Haynesville LA
    The historic post office building in Haynesville, Louisiana was constructed in 1936 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural inside, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Jeanerette LA
    The historic post office in Jeanerette, Louisiana was constructed in 1939 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Lake Providence LA
    The historic post office in Lake Providence, Louisiana was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds. It was completed in 1940. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, is still in service.
  • Post Office - Leesville LA
    Constructed with Treasury Department funds "during the Great Depression, the U.S. Post Office is built in the Art Deco style. Above two of the windows in the main facade are bas-relief sculptures which herald the advent of air mail. Inside the lobby is another bas-relief sculpture depicting a farmer leaning against a hoe and his wife, seated reading a letter. The interior sculpture was created by a New York artist, Duncan Ferguson, who was first brought to Louisiana by Huey Long to start the art school at Louisiana State University." (toledo-bend.com) Some sources mis-attribute the building's construction to the WPA.
  • Post Office - Oakdale LA
    The historic post office in Oakdale, Louisiana was constructed in 1936 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
  • Post Office - Rayville LA
    The historic post office in Rayville, Louisiana was constructed in 1937 with U.S. Treasury Department funds. The building, which houses a New Deal mural, is still in use today.
  • Post Office (former) - Covington LA
    Now the Covington School Board Annex, Covington, Louisiana's then-new post office was constructed with U.S. Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. The building, which houses an example of New Deal artwork, was completed in 1938.
  • Post Office (former) - DeRidder LA
    Constructed in 1935 with federal Treasury Department funds, the historic former post office building in DeRidder, Louisiana presently houses the Beareguard Community Action Association.
  • Post Office (former) - Houma LA
    The old post office building at 7861 Main Street in Houma, LA was constructed in 1934-5 and served until the completion of the Allen J. Ellender Federal Building. Having functioned as "The Old Post Office Club," a nightclub, during the 2000s, the building is privately owned. In 2014 it served no discernible public purpose.
  • Post Office (former) - Plaquemine LA
    The old post office in Plaquemine, Louisiana, located at 23430 Eden St., was constructed in 1935 and is now privately owned.
  • Post Office (former) - Tallulah LA
    The historic former post office in Tallulah, Louisiana was constructed ca. 1935 with Treasury Department funds. The building now houses the Madison Parish Health Unit. A mural created for the building has been relocated to Tallulah's current post office.
  • Post Office (former) - Ville Platte LA
    The Ville Platte post office was built in 1937, and originally housed a mural by Paul Rohland. The mural now resides in the new post office, while the original building is now a branch of the Evangeline Parish public library. Additional photographs can be found at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/3104366510/
  • Post Office (former) Mural - Covington LA
    Xavier Gonzales painted the mural "Tung Oil Industry" for what was then the community's new post office. The work was painted by Xavier Gonzalez in 1939; it was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The building is now the Covington School Board Annex.
  • Post Office (former) Mural - DeRidder LA
    The fresco entitled “Rural Free Delivery” was painted in 1936 by Conrad A. Albrizio. The old post office is now used by Beareguard Community Action Association.      
  • Post Office (former) Mural - Winnsboro LA
    This mural, entitled "Logging in the Louisiana Swamps," was painted in 1939 by Datus Ensign Myers. Commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, the mural is still in the original post office building—now a local history museum.
  • Post Office (former) Museum - Winnsboro LA
    This post office was built under the New Deal in 1937 and now houses the "Old Post Office Museum." An original New Deal mural still hangs in the building.
  • Post Office and Courthouse - Monroe LA
    Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1934 under supervising architect James A. Wetmore. It is still in use by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and as a post office.
  • Post Office Mural - Arcadia LA
    The oil-on-canvas mural "Cotton Time," by Allison B. Curry, depicts workers harvesting an abundant cotton crop with a cotton mill in the background, evoking the agrarian and industrial aspects of that state's history. "Curry’s initial design for the post office in Arcadia hoped to harmonize an agricultural past with an industrial future. In Curry’s composition, an ox-drawn cart pulls a cotton-laden wagon toward the market. But when Section officials requested that Curry add “a piece of architecture that has a note of reassurance” to his horizon, he chose an oil derrick, with the obvious implications." (knowLA)
  • Post Office Mural - Bunkie LA
    The oil-on-canvas mural entitled “Cotton Pickers” was painted by Caroline Rohland in 1939. "The mural was removed to the Postmaster’s office when the lobby was renovated in the 1970′s. He is glad to show it off.”
  • Post Office Mural - Gretna LA
    Stuart R. Purser painted "Steamboats on the Mississippi" in 1939 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. "It has been moved to the "new" Finance Station Post Office which is in the old train depot downtown. Hurricane Katrina forced the closure of the original 1930's post office a few blocks away."
  • Post Office Mural - Haynesville LA
    The oil-on-canvas mural “Agriculture and Industry in Claiborne Parish” was painted by Joseph Pistey, Jr. in 1939. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office Mural - Jeanerette LA
    The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts fresco entitled "Sugar Cane Mill" painted in 1941 by Hollis Holbrooks.
  • Post Office Mural - Lake Providence LA
    The historic post office in Lake Providence, Louisiana houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Life on the Lake," a mural painted by Ethel Edwards and installed in the then-new building in 1942. The work was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office Mural - Oakdale LA
    New Deal mural entitled "Air Express" painted by Harry Lane in 1939.
  • Post Office Mural - Rayville LA
    "LaSalle's Quest for the Mississippi" was painted in 1939 by Elsie Driggs and "...depicts the story of LaSalle's travels just before he discovered the mouth of the Mississippi" (Kimmerle, 2008, p. 37). Driggs painted primarily in the Precisionist style, although "she adjusted...in order to make the mural more suitable as a work of public art using a more narrative composition" in the post office mural (Fine Lines, 2009, p. 9). Driggs began the study in 1936 as a watercolor on paper, and the completed work was hung in Rayville in 1939.
  • Post Office Mural - St. Martinville LA
    This oil-on-canvas mural “Evangeline” was painted by Minetta Good in 1940. It has been moved from the old post office to this new location. The painting shows the fictive Acadian (French-American) heroine of the 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem of the same name. Separated from her lover during a period of conflict with the British, Evangeline was an important figure in Acadian communities in Canada and the United States. In the early 20th century, city boosters from St. Martinville proclaimed their town the original immigration site of Evangeline from France. The mural depicts Evangeline seated in front of the famous...
  • Post Office Mural - Tallulah LA
    This 1938 fresco “The River” was painted by Francisca Negueloua, for Tallulah's then-new post office, with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. That post office is now the Madison Parish Health Unit; the mural has been relocated to Tallulah's current post office.
  • Post Office Mural - Ville Platte LA
    A New Deal mural entitled "Louisiana Bayou" was painted in 1939 by Paul Rohland. It was relocated from the original post office to the current post office in 1971. Rohland's wife, Carolie painted murals for Bunkie, LA and Sylvania, GA.
  • Post Office Relief - Leesville LA
    Terra-cotta relief entitled "The Letter" created by Duncan Ferguson in 1939.
  • Post Office Reliefs - Vivian LA
    These three walnut reliefs "Trade and Learning," "Rural Mail," and "Harvest" were created by John Tatschl in 1941.
  • Post Office Sculpture - Many LA
    This wood carving "Cotton Pickers" by Julius Struppek was completed with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds in 1941. It is temporarily in storage and not accessible.
  • Presbytère (Louisiana State Museum) Renovation - New Orleans LA
    The former Presbytère or Rectory of the late 18th century St. Louis Cathedral is now part of the Louisiana State Museum complex, along with the old Cabildo Building.  The Cabildo flanks St. Louis on the west and the Presbytère on the east, along the north side of Jackson Square along Chartres Street.  The Presbytère was begun in 1891 and only finished thirty years later, and never served its intended purpose.  It was rented and then sold to the City of New Orleans for use as a courthouse and then transferred to the Louisiana State Museum in 1911 (see plaque). The Presbytère...
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