List of United States post office murals in North Carolina
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Following is a list of United States post office murals created in North Carolina between 1934 and 1943.[1][2][3]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahoskie | Peanut Harvest | Julien Binford | missing[5] | |||
| Albemarle | View Near Albemarle | Louis Ribak | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Beaufort | Crissy Wright |  |
Simka Simkhovitch | 1940 | oil on canvas | |
| Goose Decoys |  | |||||
| Mail to Cape Lookout |  | |||||
| Sand Ponies |  | |||||
| Belmont | Mayor Chronicle's South Fork Boys | Peter DeAnna | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Boone | Daniel Boone on a Hunting Trip in Watauga County | Alan Tompkins | 1940 | oil on canvas
Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
1996 | |
| Brevard | Good News | Pietro Lazzari | 1941 | glazed tempera | ||
| Burlington | Cotton Textiles
Historical Railroad Station |
Arthur Bairnsfather | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Chapel Hill | Laying the Old Cornerstone of Old East |  |
Dean Cornwell | 1941 | Old East was the first building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in October 1793. | |
| Concord | The Spirit of North Carolina | Edward Buk Ulreich | 1942 | |||
| Gastonia | Cotton Field and Spinning Mill | Francis Speight | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Kings Mountain | Battle of Kings Mountain | Verona Burkhard | 1939 | |||
| Laurinburg | Fruits of the Land | Agnes Tait | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Lincolnton | Threshing Grain | Richard Jansen | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Louisburg | Tobacco Auction | .jpg) |
Richard Hay Kenah | 1939 | oil on canvas | |
| Madison | Early Summer in North Carolina | Jean Watson | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Mebane | Landscape-Tobacco Curing | Margaret C. Gates
copy by Henry Rood |
1941 | oil on canvas; "destroyed; copy by Henry D. Rood installed in 1964"[5] | ||
| Mooresville | North Carolina Cotton Industry | Alicia Wiencek | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Morganton | Sir Walter Raleigh and
First Landing on the North Carolina Shore |
Dean Cornwell | 1938 | |||
| New Bern | The Bayard Singleton Case,
first printing press in North Carolina, First Provincial Convention in North Carolina (1774) |
David Silvette | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Red Springs | War-The Battle of Kittle Raft Swamp
The Coming of the Scots Peace- Work and Knowledge |
John W. de Groot | 1941 | |||
| Reidsville | Tobacco | Gordon Samstag | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Roanoke Rapids | Cotton Pickers | Charles Ward | 1938 | missing[5] | ||
| Rockingham | The Past as Connecting Threads in Human Life | Edward Laning | 1937 | triptych, oil on canvas | ||
| Roxboro | Gathering Tobacco | Allan Gould | 1938 | now at Piedmont Technical Institute[5] | ||
| Sanford | The Kinfolk of Virginia Dare | Pietro Lazzari | 1938 | |||
| Siler City | Building the First House at Siler's Crossroads | Maxwell B. Starr | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Southern Pines | horses | Joseph Presser | 1943 | oil on canvas | ||
| Wake Forest | Richness of the Soil No. 2 | Harold Egan | 1941 | |||
| Wallace | Daydreams | G. Glenn Newell | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Warrenton | North Carolina Pastoral | Alice Dineen | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Whiteville | Harvesting Tobacco | Roy Schatt | 1941 | tempera; missing[5] | ||
| Williamston | First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk |  |
Philip von Saltza | 1940 | oil on canvas; as part of the Williamston Commercial Historic District | 1995 |
| Wilmington | Port of Wilmington | William Pfohl | 1940 | oil on canvas |