The post office was built by the Treasury Department in 1935 in a Colonial Revival style. The post office was enlarged with an addition in 1989-90 by architects Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee, Coker, and Tom Howorth. As so many small communities… read more
This 1941 post office, constructed by the Treasury Department is described by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History as being in an “…odd, watered-down variation of the Colonial Revival style. Contains a mural by Douglas Crockwell, completed and installed… read more
The Colonial Revival post office in Magnolia is one of 32 constructed in Mississippi during the New Deal administration. It contains three murals by John H. Fyfe. The post office retains many of its original features, including the wooden entry… read more
This post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1937. It briefly contained a New Deal mural painted by Harold Egan.
The Colonial Revival style post office was built in 1938. It contains a mural, “Lumber Region of Mississippi” by Donald H. Robertson.
“The post office is built in the Georgian /Colonial Revival style and has central double-leaf aluminum and glass doors surrounded by a stone architrave with dentil molding in the cornice, a stone water table and cornice with dentil molding, brick… read more
The historic post office building in Poplarville, Mississippi was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds during the Great Depression. Completed in 1941, it is still in use today. “This building has an unusual plan and appearance for a post office… read more
Another Colonial Revival style post office built under the New Deal is the Tylertown post office. It was constructed in 1940, the last of the five post offices built between 1931-1940 by the Columbia & Hattiesburg firm of Dye &… read more
The post office in Waynesboro was completed in 1939 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Ross E. Braught’s 1942 mural, “Waynesboro Landscape,” painted with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
This former post office building was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1940. The one-story brick building has a basement. Wright (2003) described the building, “…a copper visor over the front entrance…recessed windows…decorative dentil work around the top perimeter and… read more
The Colonial Revival-style post office building in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi was constructed by Dye and Mullings on behalf of the federal Treasury Department. It is now privately owned.
The Colonial Revival style former post office was constructed in 1934, and currently is used as the Cleveland Police Department. The building was the first federal building constructed in Bolivar County (Fazio, et al., 1979).
The Colonial Revival post office building was constructed in 1936 by Blair, Algernon Construction Company. The building is currently used as the Union County Development Association Building. The building contains a mural by Robert Cleaver Purdy, “Miliking Time,” which was… read more
“One of many public buildings constructed in Mississippi under WPA legislation during the Great Depression, the building has been well maintained and has retained its architectural integrity” (Weaver, 1995). The former US Post Office in Philadelphia was one of 32… read more
The 1939 Colonial Revival post office was rehabilitated in 1999 and currently is home to a communications company. The company received a Heritage Award for Excellence in the rehabilitation of the historic building. It formerly contained bas relief sculptures by… read more
The historic one-story Colonial Revival post office in Starkville, Mississippi was constructed by M. C. Monroe for $14,750 in 1935. It has not been used as a post office since the 1980s; the building is now privately owned.
“Mural entitled “Scenic and Historic Booneville” painted in 1943. This is one of the murals that’s title does not match it’s content. The artist had wanted to paint a minor, local Civil War skirmish–hence the title. The Section of Fine… read more
“Milking Time,” by Robert Cleaver Purdy, is an oil-on-canvas mural completed and installed in 1939 in what was then the New Albany, Mississippi post office. It remains in the building, which is currently used as the Union County Development Association… read more
Peter Dalton completed this carved wood bas relief, entitled “Lumbermen Rolling a Log,” in 1941 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the lobby of Carthage’s historic post office.
“New Deal mural entitled “Amory in 1889″ painted in 1939 by John McCrady. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the Post Office.”
“New Deal mural entitled “Cotton Plantation” painted in 1942 by Eve Kottgen. It was moved to the current post office in 1998. Due to lack of space (or planning), there was no space in the lobby so the mural was… read more
This oil-on-canvas mural entitled “Life on the Coast” was painted in 1938 by Louis Raynaud. The mural was moved to the current Post Office in 1987. The images depict the lifestyle of coastal Mississippians. The original design showed the mother… read more
The historic New Deal post office in Columbus, Mississippi houses an example of New Deal artwork: a Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “Out of Soil,” which was completed in 1940.
A mural by Henry La Cagnina, created under the Treasury Bureau’s Section of Fine Arts program, was completed and installed in the post office in 1943 at a cost of $700.00. “Harvest” illustrated the important truck farming industry in the… read more
Isidore Toberoff’s mural, “Erosion, Reclamation and Conservation of the Soil” was completed in 1942. The oil-on-canvas work was completed under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Toberoff was a 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner in art, and while… read more
This mural was painted in 1945 by Thomas Savage in the Eupora, MS post office. He was a farmer from Iowa who excelled in painting farm scenes; in later years he would work as a commercial artist. He did three… read more
The historic post office in Forest, Mississippi houses an example of New Deal artwork: a Treasury of Fine Arts-commissioned mural entitled “Forest Loggers.” The work was completed in 1941.
The post office contains a Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural “Life in the Mississippi Cotton Belt,” painted by Auriel Bessemer in 1939 and installed in the Hazlehurst post office that same year. Bessemer was the son of Hungarian immigrants… read more
The post office contains a 1941 Section of Fine Arts mural, “Post near Houston, Natchez Trace, 1803” by Byron Burford,Jr.
Beulah Bettersworth’s mural “White Gold in the Delta” was completed in 1939 for the Indianola post office under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Bettersworth, who also completed a mural for the Columbus, Mississippi post office, was… read more
The post office contains a mural painted by Stuart R. Purser, “Ginnin’ Cotton.” Purser’s design was the winning design for Mississippi in the 48-State mural competition.
The mural, “Crossroads,” was installed in 1938. Karl Wolfe of Jackson, MS was one of only three Mississippi artists commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts for one of the 28 works installed in the state. He was paid… read more
S. Douglass Crockwell painted “Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek” in 1944 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Crockwell, a commercial artist, “…departed from type and explored dark and emotive styling to depict a critical event… read more
This mural “Economic Life in Newton in the Early 1940s” by Franklin and Mary Boggs was completed in 1942 with Section of Fine Arts funds.
Harold Egan’s “The Richness of the Soil” was completed in 1939 for the Okolona, Mississippi post office. It was ordered painted over by the postmaster within days of its installation, for reasons that are not entirely clear, but most likely,… read more
Lorin Thompson painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “Legend of the Singing River,” in 1939 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. “The mural was damaged in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. The post office was later… read more
“Lumber Region of Mississippi” was painted by Donald H. Robertson in 1940 under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Although the mural was painted over in the 1970s, it is in the process of being restored.
Medium: oil on canvas “The Wedding of Ortez and SaOwana–Christmas 1540 was painted by Joseph Pollet and completed and installed in 1939. The mural depicts the feast given by Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto to honor the first recorded Christian… read more
Lucile Blanch (aka Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch, & Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) painted “Rural Mississippi-From Early Days to Present” for the Tylertown, Mississippi post office. According to Deborah Purnell (2004), it was “actually a fresco painted directly onto the… read more
