US Post Office - Tylertown

622 Beulah Ave.
Tylertown, MS 39667
(601) 876-3755

The Tylertown Post office was constructed in the Colonial Revival style and built under the New Deal.  It was constructed in 1940, the last of the five post offices built between 1931-1940 by the Columbia & Hattiesburg firm of Dye & Mulling.  It has been very well preserved and maintained and is as beautiful today as when it was first completed. 

Lucile Blanch (aka Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch, & Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) painted “Rural Mississippi-From Early Days to Present” for the Tylertown, Mississippi post office. According to Deborah Purnell (2004), it was “actually a fresco painted directly onto the wall” and Blanch was “one of the few artists who actually painted the mural in the same town for which the work was commissioned. She took great pleasure in talking to townsfolk about the progress of the painting, and they, in turn, enjoyed seeing places they knew develop in the work.” The mural was completed in 1941.

Blanch, born in Hawley, Minnesota in 1895, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.