List of United States post office murals in New York

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Following is a list of United States post office murals created in New York between 1934 and 1943.[1][2]

Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHPlisted
Akron Horse-Drawn Railroad Elizabeth Logan 1941 tempera yes
Albany Ethel M. Parsons 1935 oil on canvas, map-style ceiling murals at James T. Foley United States Courthouse depicting the U.S., the continents, and Earth's geographical poles
Albion Along the Barge Canal Judson Smith 1939 oil on canvas yes
Amsterdam Departure of a Packet Boat Henry Schnakenberg 1939 oil on canvas yes
Sir William Johnson Conferring with the Indians
Attica Fall in the Genesse Country Thomas Donnelly 1938 oil on canvas yes
Baldwinsville Gateway to the West Paul Weller 1941 oil on canvas
Beacon Views of Mid-Hudson Region Charles Rosen 1937 oil on canvas yes
Binghamton Communication Kenneth Washburn 1938 oil on canvas
Eight murals
Boonville The Black River Canal – 1845 Lucerne McCullough 1939 oil on canvas
Suzanne McCullough
Bronxville The Arrival of the First Mail in Bronxville, 1846 John Sloan 1939 oil on canvas yes
Canajoharie Invention of a Paper Bag in Canajoharie Anatol Shulkin 1942 oil on canvas yes
Canastota The Onion Fields Alison Mason Kingsbury 1942 tempera on canvas yes
Clyde Apple Pickers Thomas Donnelly 1941 oil on canvas yes
Delhi Down-Rent War, Around 1845 Mary Earley 1940 Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition yes
Delmar The Indian Ladder Sol Wilson 1940 yes
Depew Beginning of the Day Depew Post Office mural Anne Poor 1941 oil on canvas yes
Dolgeville Underground Railroad James Michael Newell 1940 fresco yes
East Rochester Recreation Hours Bernard Gussow 1938 oil on canvas yes
Ellenville Establishment of First Post Office in Ellenville in 1823 Louis Bouche 1942 oil on canvas yes
Endicott Endicott, 1901 – Excavating for the Ideal Factory S. Douglass Crockwell 1938 oil on canvas yes
Fort Edward Lock on the Champlain Canal, Fort Edward George A. Picken 1938 oil on canvas
Fredonia The Harvest Arnold Blanch 1937 oil on canvas yes
Freeport Air Mail William Gropper 1938 oil on canvas yes
Suburban Post in Winter
Fulton Father LeMoyne Trying to Convert the Indians on Pathfinders Island Caroline S. Rohland 1942 oil on canvas yes
Garden City Huckleberry Frolic J. Theodore Johnson 1937 oil on canvas yes
Goshen The Running of the Hambletonian Stakes Georgina Klitgaard 1937 yes
Harrison Early Days of the Automobile Harold Goodwin 1941 oil on canvas yes
Hempstead Hempstead Settlers in 1640 Peppino Mangravite 1937 oil on canvas yes
The English Dirigible R-34 Delivering Mail to the United States in Hempstead Field in 1919
Homer Albany Street Bridge Frank Romanelli 1940 yes
Honeoye Falls The Life of the Senecas Stuart Edie 1942 oil on canvas yes
Hudson Falls Scenes and Activities of Hudson George A. Picken 1937 oil on canvas yes
Huntington Huntington Harbor Paul C. Chapman 1939 oil on canvas
Hyde Park Professions and Industries of Hyde Park Olin Dows 1941 yes
Johnson City Scenes of post service, local industries,
and other activities typical of the community
Frederick Knight 1937 yes
Lake George Lake George Judson Smith 1942 yes
Lake Placid Scenes of winter sports Henry Billings 1937 oil on canvas yes
Lancaster Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region Arthur Getz 1940 oil on canvas yes
Long Beach The Pleasures of the Bathing Beach Jon Corbino 1939 oil on canvas yes
Middleburgh Dance of the Hop Pickers Mary Earley 1941 oil and tempera yes
Middleport Rural Highway Marianne Appel 1941 oil on canvas yes
Mount Kisco Indian Cornfield Thomas Donnelly 1936 oil on canvas
Mount Kisco in 1850
New Rochelle The Huguenots Lay the Foundations of the City of New Rochelle David Hutchison 1940 oil on canvas yes
John Pell Receives Partial Payment for 6,000 Acres
The Post Rider Brings News of the Battle of Lexington
New York City
Bronx
General Post Office
Resources of America Ben Shahn
1939 thirteen panels, egg tempera on plaster yes
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Washington and the Battle of the Bronx Irving A. Block
1942 oil on canvas
Abraham Lishinsky
New York City
Manhattan
General Post Office
The Triborough Bridge in Process of Construction Louis Lozowick oil on canvas
Joseph Kaplan
Sky Line and Waterfront Traffic as Seen from Manhattan Bridge Louis Lozowick
Joseph Kaplan
New York City
Manhattan
Madison Square Station
Scenes of New York Kindred McLeary 1939 eight panels, tempera on plaster, started 1937 yes
New York City
Queens
Jackson Heights Station
Development of Jackson Heights Peppino Mangravite 1940 oil on canvas yes
New York City
Queens
Woodhaven Station
The First Amendment Ben Shahn 1941
Nyack Scenes of local history in the colonial period Jacob Getlar Smith 1936 yes
Jacob Pelzman
Oxford Family Reunion on Clark Island, Spring 1791 Mordi Gassner 1941 tempera yes
Oyster Bay Scenes of local history

Ernest Peixotto 1937 yes
Arthur Sturges
Allegory of North America receiving mail from world Ernest Peixotto 1936
Arthur Sturges
Painted Post Recording the Victory[3] Amy Jones[4] 1939 yes
Port Chester Domenico Mortellito 1936 four large murals and nine lunettes depicting dock workers, millowners, tool, anddie workers and the Life Savers Building yes
Port Washington Lighthouse Harry S. Lane 1937 oil on canvas
Sailing
Landscape
Poughkeepsie Indian Resting Spot Gerald Foster 1939 A 1690 scene at the "reed covered lodge at the spring place" (Poughkeepsie) where Indian messengers customarily met[5] yes
The Ratification Convention in 1788
Old Poughkeepsie
View of Poughkeepsie in 1840 Georgina Klitgaard 1940
Contemporary View of Poughkeepsie from the River Charles Rosen 1940
Rhinebeck Scenes of local history WPA mural in the Rhinebeck, NY post office Olin Dows 1940 oil on canvas yes
Richfield Springs Local landscape John W. Taylor 1942 oil on canvas yes
Rockville Centre Scenes of local history
Victor White 1939 oil on canvas, four panels yes
Rome Barn Raising Wendell Jones 1942 oil on canvas
Rye John Jay at His Home Guy Pene du Bois 1938 yes
St. Johnsville Mohawk Valley – Early St. Johnsville Pioneers Jirayr H. Zorthian 1940 oil on canvas yes
Saratoga Springs Saratoga in Racing Season Guy Pène du Bois 1937 two panels
Scarsdale Caleb Heathcote Buys the Richbell Farm Gordon Samstag 1940 oil on canvas yes
Law and Order in Old Scarsdale Manor
Scotia The Glen Family Spared by French and Indians – 1690 Amy Jones 1941 tempera yes
Spring Valley Waiting for the Mail Stephan Etneir 1938 oil on canvas yes
Springville Fiddler’s Green Victoria Hutson Huntley 1938 oil on canvas yes
Ticonderoga The Exhortation of Ethan Allen Frederick Massa 1940 oil on canvas yes
Troy Legends of the Hudson Waldo Peirce 1938 oil on canvas yes
Rip Van Winkle
Waverly Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity Musa McKim 1939 oil on canvas yes
Westhampton Beach Outdoor Sports Sol Wilson 1942 oil on canvas yes
Whitehall Settlement of Skenesborough Axel Horn 1940 oil on canvas yes

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