100 East Mazon Avenue

The first post office in Dwight was located in the residence of Simon Lutz, which was where the present post office now stands. The first postmaster, John Conant, appointed on December 22, 1854, served for three months. In April 1855, David McWilliams was appointed postmaster, and the post office was moved to the back of his new store on East Main Street. The building was where the new addition to the Bank of Dwight is now. The building is now home to the Dwight Economic Alliance.

On September 1, 1898, the post office was moved to the John Olson Buskov building on West Main Street, later used as the Dwight News Agency. Now the new addition to the First National Bank of Dwight is located on the property.

In 1937, the United States government built a new post office on the very corner where Dwight’s first mail service began in 1854. Dr. Leslie Keeley’s home was located on this corner prior to the post office.

The mural on the east wall of the Dwight Post Office was done by Carlos Lopez in 1937. The subject of the fresco is the offloading of mail. The small scenes below depict the dangers early mail carriers are said to have encountered. Mr. Lopez was commissioned by the government to create murals in several post office buildings. His most ambitious work is a Civil War scene in the Register of Deeds Building in Washington, D.C. This work was part of a WPA project during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidential years.

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