Arlington Post Office Preservation
15 01 2008
This post office in Clarendon, VA is looking pretty good! The building originally constructed in 1937 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been fully restored.
The wonderful restoration and preservation can be attributed to the commercial developers Keating Partners who in return for the restoration were able to build 75,000 sf of commercial office space on the rest of the property.
As great as that beautiful gold dome looks on the outside, it’s what’s on the inside that is really impressive. The post office features a series of 7 murals from the 1940s. Follow the jump for a picture…
One of 7 New Deal murals depicting “Historical and Industrial Scenes–Sketches of Virginia”. The specific title is “Apple Harvest”. They were painted in 1940 by Auriel Bessemer and restored in 2005.
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