Freehold New Jersey Former Post Office 07728

A total of forty-five artist created murals in forty-seven New Jersey Post Office buildings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Four of the artist received multiple commissions as noted below. The artist and their awarded sites as listed below.

We have found having a list such as this is convenient when performing research at the National Archives Records and Administration. Any researcher will reveal, that finding information is part of the fun, somethings what you are looking for is catalogued by the artist name. Other times the research materials you need may be cataloged by the city or town, and so on.

Having a list to refer to is helpful on your journey of discovering these wonderful treasures in our nations post offices.

New Jersey Post Office Mural Artists

Atlantic City – Peppino Mangravite
Boonton – Enid Bell*
Bordentown – Avery Johnson*
Caldwell – Brenda Putnam
Former Cliffside Park – Bruno Neri
Former Clifton – John Sitton
Cranford – Gerald Foster*
Fort Lee – Henry Schnakenberg
Former Freehold – Gerald Foster*
Garfield – Robert Laurent
Glen Ridge – James Chapin
Gloucester City – Vincent D’ Agostino
Haddon Heights – Isamu Noguchi
Hammonton – Spero Anageros
Harrison – Murray J. Roper
Kearny – Albert Kotin
Linden – Sahl Swarz
Former Little Falls – James Brooks
Matawan – Armin A. Scheler
Metuchen – Harld Ambellan
Millburn – Gerald Foster*
Mount Holly – Enid Bell*
New Brunswick – George Biddle
New Brunswick – Ruth Nickerson
Newark – Romuald Kraus*
Newark – Vicken Von Post Totten
North Bergen – Avery Johnson*
Nutley – Paul C. Chapman
Patterson – Ilse Erythropel
Paulsboro – Nena de Brennecke
Penns Grove – Benjamin Hawkins
Pitman – Nathaniel Choate
Plainfield – Anton Refregier
Pompton Lakes – A. Stirling Calder
Princeton – Karl Free
Ridgefield Park – Thomas Donnelly
Ridgewood – Romuald Kraus*
Riverside – John Poehler
Short Hills – Ernest Lawson
South Orange – Bernard Perlin
South River – Maurice Glickman
Summit – Fiske Boyd
Former Toms River – Milton Hebald
Trenton – Charles W. Ward
Washington – Frank D. Shapiro
West New York – William Dean Fausett
Westfield – Roy Hilton
Westwood – Hunt Diederich
Wildwood – Dennis Burlingame

Sources

David W. Gates Jr. on site visits to each location.
New Jersey Post Office Mural Guidebook by David W. Gates Jr.
National Archives Records and Administration, College Park Maryland
Who was who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artist in America, Peter H Falk; Audrey M Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, Veronika Roessler, Madison, CT, Mount View Press. 1999.
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz

West New York New Jersey Post Office 07093

ADDRESS: 5415 Bergenline Ave., West New York, New Jersey 07093
ARTIST: William Dean Fausett
TITLE: View From the Palisades — West New York
MEDIUM: Oil on plywood (mural)
STATUS: The West New York 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 retail counter.
YEAR: 1937

While doing some pre-trip planing, I tried to make myself as familiar with the sites I was going to visit before heading out to New Jersey. I knew that getting a full image of the building with no cars or people was going to be nearly impossible.

True to this reasoning, I found this to be exactly the case. West New York is a really congested place, both cars and people. I scheduled my visit early on a Sunday and STILL found cars out in front. I knew if that was the case it was going to be nearly impossible to get an unobstructed photograph of this one.

Even after being here at 6:30AM on a Sunday. I figured the cars were not moving anytime soon. I settled for the close up images you see below.

I wasn’t planning on the lobby being open and sure enough it wasn’t. I’ll have to plan my visit during business hours when I come back later for the mural images.

I do like the plaque out front, but I’m wounding how many people actually read it or know of it.

David W. Gates Jr.