“Because the private Goodland Academy was consolidated with an adjacent public school district in the 1930s, the Presbyterian-sponsored orphanage that was founded in the nineteenth century was given WPA funds to add buildings to its campus. A grade school building,… read more
What is now the Hugo School Administration Office was constructed as the community’s post office during the Great Depression. The re-purposed building continues to house New Deal artwork inside.
John A. Fleck painted the mural “Choctaw Indians See the First Mail Coach” in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural was painted for what was then the Hugo post office, now the Hugo School Administration Office.