Celebrating our Nation's Post Offices
Post offices with artwork.
ADDRESS: 1614 Main St, Jeanerette, LA 70544
ARTIST: Hollis Holbrook
TITLE: Sugar Cane Mill
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Jeanerette post office is still an active, operating facility, and the relief can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on a wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1941
Jeanerette—built 1939, the mural depicts the sugar fields of the area.
Doug,
ADDRESS: 4608 Tonnelle Ave., North Bergen, New Jersey 07047
ARTIST: Avery Johnson
TITLE: Purchase of Territory of North Bergen from the Indians
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The North Bergen 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: 1939
These cover Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, and Sussex Counties from my trip within the last ten days.
Thanks Doug,
ADDRESS: 15 Chestnut St, Suffern, NY 10901
ARTIST: Elliott Means
TITLE: Communication
MEDIUM: Plaster (relief)
STATUS: The Suffern post office is still an active, operating facility, and the relief can be viewed by interested members of the public. It resides in the lobby on a wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1936
These post offices from my trip within the last two weeks comprise Rockland and Orange Counties plus the Bronx and Queens.
Thanks Doug,
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz