A total of forty-five artist created murals in forty-seven New Jersey Post Office buildings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Four of the artist received multiple commissions as noted below. The artist and their awarded sites as listed below.

We have found having a list such as this is convenient when performing research at the National Archives Records and Administration. Any researcher will reveal, that finding information is part of the fun, somethings what you are looking for is catalogued by the artist name. Other times the research materials you need may be cataloged by the city or town, and so on.

Having a list to refer to is helpful on your journey of discovering these wonderful treasures in our nations post offices.

New Jersey Post Office Mural Artists

1. Atlantic City – Peppino Mangravite
2. Boonton – Enid Bell*
3. Bordentown – Avery Johnson*
4. Caldwell – Brenda Putnam
5. Former Cliffside Park – Bruno Neri
6. Former Clifton – John Sitton
7. Cranford – Gerald Foster*
8. Fort Lee – Henry Schnakenberg
9. Former Freehold – Gerald Foster*
10. Garfield – Robert Laurent
11. Glen Ridge – James Chapin
12. Gloucester City – Vincent D’ Agostino
13. Haddon Heights –  Isamu Noguchi
14. Hammonton – Spero Anageros
15. Harrison – Murray J. Roper
16. Kearny – Albert Kotin
17. Linden – Sahl Swarz
18. Former Little Falls – James Brooks
19. Matawan – Armin A. Scheler
20. Metuchen – Harld Ambellan
21. Millburn – Gerald Foster*
22. Mount Holly – Enid Bell*
23. New Brunswick – George Biddle
24. New Brunswick – Ruth Nickerson
25. Newark – Romuald Kraus*
26. Newark – Vicken Von Post Totten
27. North Bergen – Avery Johnson*
28. Nutley – Paul C. Chapman
29. Patterson – Ilse Erythropel
30. Paulsboro – Nena de Brennecke
31. Penns Grove – Benjamin Hawkins
32. Pitman – Nathaniel Choate
33. Plainfield – Anton Refregier
34. Pompton Lakes – A. Stirling Calder
35. Princeton – Karl Free
36. Ridgefield Park – Thomas Donnelly
37. Ridgewood – Romuald Kraus*
38. Riverside – John Poehler
39. Short Hills – Ernest Lawson
40. South Orange – Bernard Perlin
41. South River – Maurice Glickman
42. Summit – Fiske Boyd
43. Former Toms River – Milton Hebald
44. Trenton – Charles W. Ward
45. Washington – Frank D. Shapiro
46. West New York – William Dean Fausett
47. Westfield – Roy Hilton
48. Westwood – Hunt Diederich
49. Wildwood – Dennis Burlingame

Sources

• David W. Gates Jr. on site visits to each location.
• New Jersey Post Office Mural Guidebook by David W. Gates Jr.
• National Archives Records and Administration, College Park Maryland
• Who was who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artist in America, Peter H Falk; Audrey M Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, Veronika Roessler, Madison, CT, Mount View Press. 1999.
• Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal: [Hardcover]  Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz