Yuma former Post Office (#0892)

The former US Post Office in Yuma – if you look closely at a larger size of the picture, you can see the outline of “United States Post Office” behind the name of the company that now owns the building. Considering the architecture and the time that it was built, I suspected that it was probably built with New Deal funds. I could find no evidence supporting that assumption, but the information about its construction in the application for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (see link below) suggests that New Deal funds may have been used. The original funding was appropriated in 1931, before the beginning of the New Deal, but the beginning of construction was in 1933 close to the time that New Deal funds were being released to Arizona. Additionally, at the dedication, the governor's secretary "made a plea to Arizona citizens for greater unity in support of the national and state recovery programs" focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/85003109.pdf