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ADDRESS: 100 North East Monroe Street., Peoria, Illinois, 61601
ARTIST: Freeman Schoolcraft
TITLE: Postal Service, Native Indian, Agriculture, and Industry
MEDIUM: Limestone (reliefs)
STATUS: The Peoria courthouse is still an active, operating facility. However, the post offices no longer operates out of this building. The reliefs can be viewed by interested members of the public. They reside on the exterior of the building.
YEAR: 1939

Another beautiful day for photographing old post offices. These were taken back in June of 2015. Here is why I’m just posting it now. See I take road trips and perform my site visits way in advanced of ever creating the articles. So when I return I have a backlog of photos that need to be sorted, saved and renamed. After this is done I then need to resize the photos. After I resize the photos I need to create the article you are now enjoying.

All this work means I have a pretty large backlog of work that needs to get done. Eventually as the winter months keep me inside more I’ll be able to catch up. But for now please enjoy the beautiful former Peoria post office and court-house.

I was pleasantly surprised these are located on the exterior of the building. No need to wait for the lobby to open or to have other objects in the way. I can just walk up and start photographing. What are your thoughts of limestone reliefs? Please comment and share below.

Thanks,

David W. Gates Jr.

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Sources

• Personal visit on 6/27/2015 by David W. Gates Jr.
• Illinois Post Office Mural Guidebook 
• 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 (12000878).
• National Archives Records and Administration Identifier Number (28893833).
• U.S. General Services Administration.