The U.S.

Post Office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

-Lindsborg is a

Classical Revival Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...

building at 125 East Lincoln Street in Lindsborg,

Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...

. The post office building was constructed in 1938 and added to the

National Historic Register The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of sites, buildings, structures, districts, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1989. It is in plan. A depression-era WPA mural titled ''Smoky River'' by Swedish-born painter Birger Sandzen is in the lobby. The artist was paid $390 for the mural. With . Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the

Section of Painting and Sculpture Section, Sectioning, or Sectioned may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea * Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents ** Section s ...

, later called the

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, of the Treasury Department.

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Government buildings completed in 1938 Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Buildings and structures in McPherson County, Kansas Lindsborg, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in McPherson County, Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub

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