ADDRESS: 22 S. 7th St. Van Buren, Arkansas 72956
ARTIST: E. Martin Hennings
TITLE: The Chosen Site
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Van Buren post office is still an active, operating facility, and the mural can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on the wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1938
Van Buren was another stop during our April 2018 vacation. It is Monday night Christmas Eve as I’m writing this last article for my current Arkansas collection. February 16, 2019, I’m just getting to editing this and posting it.
The bad news is I think I’m caught up with all the buildings I have photos of. The good news is the kids wants to go back to Arkansas and dig for diamonds again at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, so we most likely will be heading down here agin soon. Enjoy the pictures.
I’ve been busy getting the Wisconsin Books together so stay tuned for those. This new WordPress editor is taking some getting used to. argh!! Just venting.
Take care and thanks for following along.
David W. Gates Jr.
“Used with the permission of the United States Postal Service®. All rights reserved.”
Sources
- Personal visit on 4/25/2018 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
- (affiliate link) University of Central Arkansas
- (affiliate link) Post masters: Arkansas post office art in the new deal
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Reference Number (98000918).
- National Archives Records and Administration Identifier Number (26139424).
published about the post offices in Arkansas. I’ll include this in the sources section below. And now for the images. So far I’ve been unable to find this one, but I’ll keep looking.
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz