ADDRESS: 1114 North 2nd Street, Chillicothe, Illinois, 61523
ARTIST: Arthur Hershel Lidov
TITLE: Rail Roading
MEDIUM: Egg tempera (mural)
STATUS: The Chillicothe 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: 1942
My current employer gives us Good Friday off. So how do you think I spend the day? Oh you are right if you guessed that I drove around and took pictures of post offices. How did you know? Lucky guess or do you know me? Are you a stalker? Lucky the post offices were open.
This is Chillicothe, Illinois. I like the mural and I was really happy to see the old photographs in the bulletin display case. When the building was constructed it didn’t have the wheel-chair ramp in front. Also notice the two trees in front in the old photograph.
Have you visited this building? Did you know the name of the artist to mural? Please comment and share below.
Thanks,
David W. Gates Jr.
Sources
- Personal visit on 4/03/2015 by David W. Gates Jr.
- https://amzn.to/4fV2iKTIllinois Post Office Mural Guidebook
- United States Postal Service
- Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
- Parma Conservation
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
