ADDRESS: 121 E Main St, Williamston, NC 27892
ARTIST: Philip von Saltza
TITLE: First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Williamston 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: 1940
These are North Carolina post offices (M-Z) from my recent trip—September of 2022. The painting, in the post office in this eastern North Carolina town, commemorates the Wright brothers’ first experiment with flight, which happened just around 100 miles away in Kitty Hawk.
Doug
“Used with the permission of the United States Postal Service®. All rights reserved.”
Sources
- Personal visit on 2022 by Doug
- United States Postal Service
- (affiliate link) Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
I like the bicycle — a reference to the Wright Bros. business.