Delhi Sites

Delaware Academy, in Delhi, New York was constructed with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The building bears a 1939 cornerstone and Federal Works Agency: Public Works Administration plaque.

The historic post office building in Delhi, New York “was built in 1938, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a symmetrically massed one story brick building with a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. The front section features a copper clad gable roof crowned by a square flat-topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round arched vent openings on each face… It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

The historic Delhi post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: a 1940 mural by artist Mary Earley titled "Down-Rent War, Around 1845." The mural was a winner of the New Deal 48-State Competition Post Office murals.

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted improvement and construction work at what was then the State School of Agriculture in Delhi, New York. The Catskill Mountain News wrote: Improvements to the Delhi state school will include construction of a farm mechanics and shop building, poultry house, cattle barn and cottage. The milk house will be repaired and enlarged, and the exterior of the barn, administration building, shop and homemaking buildings and the interior of the administration building will be painted. The total cost of these improvements will be $42,216.95. The institution now partly comprises SUNY Delhi.