• 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 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.
  • Rayville Light & Water Plant - Rayville LA
    The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided funds for the completion of the Rayville Light & Water Plant in Rayville, Louisiana during the Great Depression. The plant had been under construction for many years prior to the PWA appropriations, with plans for electrification dating back to 1913. The waterworks/sewerage were completed in 1939 at a cost of $26,921. The light plant was completed in 1940 at a cost of $77,464.