Vandalia Sites

This New Deal Post Office in Vandalia was constructed with the help of New Deal funds circa 1936-37. The entry to the post office has three bas reliefs depicting the different forms of transportation used to deliver the mail including train, ship, and plane.

This mural "Corn Harvest" by Joseph Vorst was painted for the Vandalia post office with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It depicts a classic regionalist subject with farmers harvesting corn, stacking the corn into shocks, and then transporting them on a cart pulled by two mules.  A barn is in the background and the right side of the mural features lunch for the men.  Some erosion is evident on the hill in the center and the tree roots on the right are exposed. Joseph Vorst was born in Essen, Germany where he studied under Max Liebermann.  He immigrated...