• Post Office (former) - Peabody MA
    The historic former post office building in Peabody, Massachusetts was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds ca. 1938-9. The building, which is now privately owned, also houses an example of New Deal artwork, which can be seen in the lobby. Unfortunately, the building's cornerstone has been covered over, and possibly destroyed, by a poorly implemented ADA ramp.
  • Post Office (former) Mural - Peabody MA
    The historic former post office building in Peabody, Massachusetts houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Old Bull Pen," which can be seen in the lobby. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, and completed by Waldo Peirce in 1940.
  • VFW Post 1011 - Peabody MA
    W.P.A. Bulletin, 1937: "In the middle 1800s a two-story wooden building on Stevens street, Peabody. served as a town hall and later as the city's first high school (after Peabody became a city). But population increased as the city's leather business prospered and the old building became inadequate for changing conditions. So it was abandoned and seemed to sadly view the passing parade of modern life. Fidelity Post, 1011, 'Veterans of Foreign Wars, needed a clubhouse. City fathers donated the old town hall and high school for the purpose. A WPA project built a cement floor in the cellar, adding shower baths....