List of United States post office murals in Michigan
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Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Michigan between 1934 and 1943.[1][2]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP
listed[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma | Harvest | _SAAM-1974.28.55_1_(cropped).jpg) |
Joseph H. Cox | 1940 | oil on canvas[4] | |
| Belding | Belding Brothers and Their Silk Industry | Marvin Beerbohm | 1943 | |||
| Birmingham | The Pioneering Society's Picnic | Carlos Lopez | 1942 | Building now houses private offices
with mural on display. |
||
| Blissfield | Laying the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad | Jean Paul Slusser | 1938 | |||
| Bronson | Harvest | Arthur Getz | 1941 | |||
| Buchanan | Production | _SAAM-1974.28.94_1.jpg) |
Gertrude Goodrich | 1941 | was painted over, but is being restored | |
| Calumet | Copper Mining in Calumet |  |
Joe Lasker | 1941 | ||
| Caro | Mail on the Farm | David Fredenthal | 1941 | |||
| Chelsea | The Way of Life | _SAAM-1962.8.49_1.jpg) |
George Fisher | 1938 | moved to new post office building in August 2009 | |
| Clare | The Mail Arrives in Clare | Allan Thomas | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
| Crystal Falls | Extending the Frontier in Northwest Territory | Allan Thomas | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Dearborn | Ten Eyck’s Tavern on Chicago Road | Rainey Bennett | 1938 | oil on canvas, on display at the Henry Ford Community College Library | ||
| Detroit | Automobile Industry |  |
William Gropper | 1941 | oil on fiberboard, on display in the student center at Wayne State University[5] | |
| East Lansing | America's First Agricultural College | Henry Bernstein | 1938 | on display at Michigan State University's Main Library | ||
| Eastpointe | Early Settlers | _SAAM-1974.28.87_1.jpg) |
Frank Cassara | 1940 | ||
| Eaton Rapids | Industry and Agriculture | Boris Mestchersky | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Frankfort | On Board the Ferry Car (Ann Arbor #4, Feb. 14, 1923) | Henry Bernstein | 1941 | 1989 | ||
| Grand Ledge | Waiting for the Mail | James Calder | 1939 | winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
| Grayling | The Lumber Camp | Robert Lepper | 1939 | oil on canvas, depicts lumberjacks, sawing through timber; stacks of logs, logging equipment, workhorses, locomotive, and Native American's observing the process[6] | ||
| Greenville | Lumbering | Charles W. Thwaite | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Hamtramck | Products of Industry and Agriculture | Schomer Lichtner | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Farm Family | ||||||
| City Workers | ||||||
| Howell | Rural Delivery | Jaroslaw Brozik | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Iron Mountain | Historic Treatment of Mail Transportation in the West |  |
Vladimir Rouseff | 1935 | five oil on canvas panels | |
| Iron River | Paul Bunyan Straightening Out the Round River' | Milton Horn | July 16, 1941 | wood carved relief[7] | ||
| Marquette | Marquette Exploring Shores of Lake Superior | Dewey Albinson | 1938 | on display at the Marquette US Post Office and Federal Courthouse | ||
| Midland | Fabricating Steel | _SAAM-1962.8.33_2.jpg) |
Henry Bernstein | 1942 | relocated to the Midland County Services Building in 1989[8] | |
| Paw Paw | Bounty |  |
Carlos Lopez | 1940 | ||
| Plymouth | Plymouth Trail |  |
Carlos Lopez | 1938 | ||
| Rockford | Among the Furrows | Pierre Bourdelle | 1940 | |||
| Rogers City | Harbor at Rogers City | James Calder | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| St. Clair | St. Clair River | James Calder | 1938 | |||
| Wayne | Landscape Near Wayne – 1875 | Algot Stenbery | 1939 | Missing[9] |