Post offices with artwork.

Forest City North Carolina Post Office – Guest

February 13, 2024 By Doug

ADDRESS: 133 S Powell St, Forest City, NC 28043
ARTIST: Duane Champlin
TITLE: Rural Delivery
MEDIUM: Plaster (bas relief)
STATUS: The Forest City post office is still an active, operating facility and the relief once house in the original building is now located here on S. Powell Street. It can be viewed by interested members of the public. The mural resides in the lobby.
YEAR: 1939

Thanks Doug,

Sources

Personal visit on by Doug
United States Postal Service
(affiliate link) Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz.

Augusta Kansas Post Office – Guest

October 23, 2023 By Doug

ADDRESS: 119 E 5th Ave, Augusta, KS 67010
ARTIST: Donald Silks
TITLE: A Kansas Gusher
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Augusta post office is an active operating postal facility. The mural resides above postmasters door.
YEAR: 1938

Thanks Doug,

Augusta (Kansas Gusher Mural painted 1940)

Sources

Personal visit Doug.
(affiliate link) Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
Go Augusta: Visitor Information (goaugusta.org)
Kansas Sampler: 8 Wonders of Kansas Art | Post Office Section Art, statewide Kansas Sampler Foundation

Kilgore Texas Former Post Office – Guest

October 5, 2023 By Roger

ADDRESS: 200 S Kilgore St, Kilgore, TX 75662
ARTIST: Xavier Gonzalez
TITLE: Pioneer Saga, Music of the Plains, Contemporary Youth, Drilling for Oil
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The former Kilgore post office is no longer an active operating postal facility. However, the murals are still located here and can be viewed. They reside on the walls of the former lobby and above the former postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1941

The Kilgore Historical Preservation Foundation was instrumental in preserving the old post office and creating the building as the Kilgore History and Arts Center. The four murals have been returned to the former post office which has been restored beautifully. The post office closed in 1998. From 1999 to 2019 the murals were housed in the East Texas Oil Museum. They were returned in 2019 to their former location; the KHPF purchased the former Post Office from the USPS in 1999.

Thanks Roger