Celebrating our Nation's Post Offices
Post offices with artifacts
ADDRESS: 1470 Blue Ball Rd, Childs, MD 21916
Believe it or not, this would be my first Maryland Post Office. Yippee! I didn’t realize that until I was creating this article. I had to add the category Maryland.
David W. Gates Jr.
ADDRESS: 350 W 6th St Ste 124, Dubuque, Iowa 52001
ARTIST: Bertrand R. Adams
TITLE: Early Settlers of Dubuque
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
STATUS: The Dubuque post office is still an active, operating facility, and the murals can be viewed by interested members of the public. They both reside on a walls of the main entrance.
YEAR: 1937
ARTIST: William E. L. Bunn
TITLE: Early Mississippi Steamboat
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
STATUS: The Dubuque post office is still an active, operating facility, and the murals can be viewed by interested members of the public. They both reside on a walls of the main entrance.
YEAR: 1937
My son and I drove to Dubuque on June 25, 2021. It was nice adventure day. We stopped by the Dubuque, Iowa post office and we also visited the Crystal Lake Caves and Fenelon Palace car.
I remember my parents took me on the palace car when I was younger and I wanted to re-create this experience for my son. It’s interesting how that attraction has not changed much in 40 years.
I do remember it being a humid day, and the local Taco Bell frozen slushy machine wasn’t working, after waiting in the drive through line for quit a while.
Anyway, here are all the numerous photos we took during this trip. Kudos to the kid for taking his own photos while we visited with his iPad.
And by the way, the murals are great, but this building has so much more. The exterior art deco features are wonderful, there are framed blueprints throughout the lobby. and the second floor houses some nice artifacts including a bell. Lots of little things to see.
David W. Gates Jr.
ADDRESS: 143 E. Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
ARTIST: Romuald Kraus
TITLE: Male and Female Figures
MEDIUM: Metal (reliefs) 2 reliefs
STATUS: The Ridgewood post office is still an active, operating facility, and the reliefs can be viewed by interested members of the public. They resided in the lobby on the wall above the retail counter.
YEAR: 1937
I wasn’t quite prepared for such a large lobby. There just seems to be a lot of space inside, which is definitely different than most I’ve visited.
Most of the buildings are smaller more intimate places, but from the outside, I guess I would not have expected the ceiling height to be so open.
Bonus that we also have a statue of the postal carrier in the front lawn of the building. I’ve seen people take their pictures with this status and I’m not different. I walked right to get a selfie with the postal carrier.
Both reliefs in the lobby are high up and difficult to see. Even using the tripod it was difficult to bring the art closer. I think I did pretty good job, but let me know if you feel different in the comments below.
David W. Gates Jr.
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