| Built in 1937, the post office is associated with the New Deal programs and displays a mural sponsored by a Depression-era Treasury Department program, painted by Gunnison-area artists Ila McAfee in 1940. The mural is entitles "Welth of the West", and includes a background of mountians, cowboys, and cattle drinking from a stream. The painting is located on the south wall of the loby. Ila McAfee attened Gunnison schools and Western University and became famous for her paintings of horses, cattle, deer, and mountian lions. |
