Bluffton Ohio Post Office

ADDRESS: 132 South Main Street, Bluffton, Ohio, 45817
ARTIST: Sante Graziani
TITLE: Joseph Deford and His Friends Building the First Cabin in Bluffton
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Bluftton 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: 1941

When people ask me what my favorite post office is it’s really hard to answer. I admit, the New Deal buildings are among my favorites but to me it goes deeper than this. What I constitute as my favorite post office is everything surrounding the entire visit. What stands out for me, as a favorite, or what I would call, “quality” visit, would be the photograph’s I’m able to get.

The visit to Bluffton is a perfect example of this. The sunlight sort of just glowed from the orange brick of the building making a great photograph. The clear deep blue sky in the background adds the perfect touch to the photograph. Take all this and add a great mural and you have what I like to refer to as “one of my favorites”. So to all those who ask me the question, “What is your favorite”, it’s the ones I get a great photograph of. See it’s not always about the building, or the content. Sometimes its just that I nailed the perfect shot.

Thanks,

David W. Gates Jr.