ADDRESS: 359 Louisiana St. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235
ARTIST: Santos Zingale
TITLE: Fruits of Sturgeon Bay
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Sturgeon Bay Post Office is still active postal facility and the mural is view able by the public. It resides in the lobby on the wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1940
Welcome to another awesome Wisconsin Post Office. One summer weekend in 2013, I was not able to sleep. So what did I do? I woke up about 3:00 in the morning. Wide awake I said to myself “I could make it to Sturgeon Bay and back today,” So that’s what I did. A personal visit by me to confirm and photograph this great building and mural.
But what a long day, I made it Sturgeon Bay, drove to some other post offices and then back home. Lots of driving but that’s what it takes.
Thanks,
David W. Gates Jr.
Sources
- Personal visit on 7/27/2013 by David W. Gates Jr.
- Wisconsin Post Office Murals by David W. Gates Jr.
- Wisconsin Post Office Mural Guidebook by David W. Gates Jr.
- United States Postal Service
- (affiliate link) Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Reference Number (00001237).
- National Archives Records and Administration Identifier Number (106778863).
- Door County Pulse: When the WPA Brought an Art Master to Sturgeon Bay (https://doorcountypulse.com/when-the-wpa-brought-an-art-master-to-sturgeon-bay/)
