• Hanby House - Westerville OH
    Once the home of Bishop William Hanby, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and his son, Benjamin Hanby, a popular composer, in 1937 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) moved the Hanby House to its current location, to save it from demolition. Between 1941 and 1942, WPA laborers also performed structural renovation and historic restoration work at this site, now a museum.
  • Post Office (former) - Westerville OH
    The former Westerville post office was a New Deal project and used to contain a mural by Olive Nuhfer. The mural has been moved to a new post office north of downtown. An early photograph of the building can be found at the Ohio Memory online archive (https://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p267401coll34/id/9898/rec/1).
  • Post Office Mural - Westerville OH
    Olive Nuhfer painted this oil-on-canvas mural, entitled "The Daily Mail," in 1937 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Created for the then-new Westerville post office, it has since been relocated to USPS's current operation. From the Pittsburgh Press, December 19, 1937: A cool reception was accorded the mural painted by Olive Nuhfer, Pittsburgh artist, for the village of Westerville, O., where it has been installed in the post office, under a Government art project. Commented "Public Opinion," the community newspaper: "The painting is well done, but it seems to us that the artist had in mind a street scene...