Siler City Post Office, 1940.

This building was completed in 1940 on the site of the John Siler House around which Siler City developed. Mount Airy granite was used in the construction of the post office, which cost $57,490.

The mural inside the post office was commissioned by the WPA (although the building itself was not). The mural, which depicts nineteenth-century Matthews Crossroads (Siler City's precursor) and the John Siler House, was painted by artist Maxwell Starr of New York, who was paid $400 for the project.

From the Chatham County Historical Association collection.

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