Hyde Park Post Office Mural: The Bard-Hosack Farm, 1790

Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 7. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "The Bard Hosack Farm with the Red House (built 1764 by Dr. John Bard, located north of St. James Church, model for the present Post Office). Merino sheep imported to improve local breeds by the Bards graze in the foreground." The "Red House" served as the model for the present-day Hyde Park Post Office, a Dutch Colonial Revival structure whose cornerstone was laid in 1940 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unlike the wood-frame Red House, however, the Hyde Park Post Office is built of fieldstone found on Bard family lands... Mehr ...