Nashville Post Office (Nashville, Arkansas)

 post office, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, Art Deco (architecture), New Deal Depression Relief Project [1933-1945]

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Historic post office listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Built: 1937
Architect: Louis A. Simon (U.S. Treasury Department)
Architectural style: Art Deco
Areas of significance: Politics/Government
Area: less than 1 acre
Date added to NRHP: 8/14/1998
Other designations: part of the Post Offices with Section Art in Arkansas Multiple Property Submission
Notes: This is one of several post offices in the state that contains art commissioned by the U.S. government under the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a program initiated to provide work to struggling artists during the Great Depression. This particular post office features a mural entitled "Peach Growing", by New Jersey artist John Tazewell Robertson.