• Post Office - Middleport NY
    "In 1939, as part of relief efforts during the Great Depression, Congress authorized the construction of a post office building in the village, one of the last of over 200 in the state built in the 1930s. The government acquired the present site for $8,950 ($150,000 in contemporary dollars) and demolished the village's trolley stop, a church social hall and house to make way for the new building. In May 1940 a Takoma Park, Maryland, contractor began construction. The building was opened in January 1941, one of the last new post offices to be completed before Congress began diverting resources...
  • Post Office Mural - Middleport NY
    The post office contains a mural by Marianne Appel entitled "Rural Highway" and painted in 1941. Appel won the commission in a competition held by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.