Emigrants at Nightfall - Alvin, TX - WPA Projects on Waymarking.com

Alvin Museum Website
When the Mozley mural was taken down from the Alvin Post Office wall in 1966, it was folded and stored in the building’s basement. Many years later a Post Office employee contacted a museum staff and asked if the museum would like to have it. Cleo Congrady and Ida Blanchette took the mural, unfolded it and covered it with protective sheets, and rolled it into a cylinder. It was stored at Alvin Community College until 2005, when it was brought back to the museum building, now housed in the original post office. (Had the museum not retrieved the mural from the basement of the post office, it would have been destroyed in the Great Flood of 1979.)

Restoration of the deteriorating mural was begun in the summer of 2015 and was completed in September. Lee Casbeer, a Texas mural restorer, was commissioned by the museum to oversee the restoration project, which was made possible by a gift from Nolan and Ruth Ryan. The restored Emigrants at Nightfall has now been installed in the Alvin Historical Museum, the same building where it was originally displayed.

Project type: Mural/Painting Date built or created: 1942 Location: Alvin, TX US Post Office City: Alvin Condition: Pristine condition Website for additional information: [Web Link]

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