The former King’s Daughters Hospital was completed as PWA project 1243. The hospital was funded by a $14,400 grant approved 6/22/1938. Contracts were awarded to S. J. Aswell for construction and construction began the same day. Architects N. W. Overstreet… read more
This one-story Art Moderne style post office was built in 1935. It originally contained a New Deal mural, “White Gold in the Delta.” The mural was destroyed in the 1960s.
Beulah Bettersworth’s mural “White Gold in the Delta” was completed in 1939 for the Indianola post office under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Bettersworth, who also completed a mural for the Columbus, Mississippi post office, was… read more