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A. B. Mullett: his buildings Then and Now

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• San Francisco Mint (National Historic Preservationists and lovers of National Treasurers please keep an eye on this building to ensure its new owners, the City of San Francisco, clean it up, repair roof, gutters and down spouts, keep out the rats, and open it to the public in some form. The city of San Francisco is now collecting proposals for the future use of the building:  the date for submissions has been extended to October 18, 2002. Information can be obtained from hala.hijazi@sfgov.org . There is other information getting coins from the current mint at U.S. Mint Government information on the San Francisco Mint.
• Custom House and Post Office in St. Louis Missouri saved from destruction in the 1960s needs to be on the watch list again. See the National Trust web site.
  
• Carson City Mint and San Francisco Mint Carson City Mint
• U. S. Treasury Building, Washington DC (Funds were raised to restore the north wing following a serious fire 1997 and Congress approved funds for exterior and interior cleaning and repairs for the rest of the building. East Wing exterior is currently being cleaned while interior work will go on wing by wing.) 
• Pioneer Post Office and Court House in Portland, OR . This building will suffer at the hands of GSA a "new seismic upgrade" a hole in one of the walls to make room for a parking lot under the building for 5 cars. The building is now occupied by only 3 judges who will take over the building. They were supposed to move the Post Office out October 31. This date was extended to the end of January 2003. It has been extended again to April 1 but they will have another meeting open to the public explaining what they want to do and allowing the public to speak out and present counter information and documents. The meeting will be February 11, 2003 in the Pioneer Post Office / Courthouse, 520 SW Morrison Street, Portland Or. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Written comments will also be accepted.  GSA still plans to close this historic treasure from public use as one of the few Post Offices in that part of downtown Portland. The citizens letters were all against this move including a letter from the owners of the original land who said they were opposed to the changes and removal of the Post Office. In the original Land Grant the owners said that if there were changes they did not approve in the use, they wanted to have the land revert back to them.. There have been empty offices in this structure and recommendations from the public have come in for its more complete usage. We heard that there will be limited tours of the building and limited access by the public after the renovation. Please contact Regional Historic Preservation Officer US General Services Administration, 400  15th Street, SW, Auburn, WA 98001. phone 253-931-7865 fax 253-931-7251 or e-mail at stan.catchpole@gsa.gov.
• Custom House in Portland, ME , has a notice at Portland landmarks web site. 
• The National Council of Negro Women, Inc., Washington, DC (This used to be the Apex Liquor Store, then Sears House, and originally a bank.) 
• U. S. Custom House in Port Huron, MI was restored beautifully almost ten years ago and has multi-use activity under GSA control. On our last visit it was one of the best used and best maintained of Government buildings.
• The Old Executive Office Building should be named after Hamilton Fish, the Secretary of State who insisted that the building have its present location and design. more... Outside our site Old Executive Office Building , now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, formerly Old State, War, and Navy Building. This link takes you to the web site tour information of this historic building.

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• Information on Arthur G. Dove as known by Suzanne Mullett Smith
• Spider Woman Stories currently in its 9th edition, this best seller is published in agreement with University of Arizona Press. These are Hopi tales collected at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century by Dr. Fewkes of the Smithsonian nstitution, Bureau of Ethnology where George Alice Mills Crawford Merrick Mullett was employed as an illustrator of items taken from the digs in Arizona. Dr. Fewkes was the first white man to be initiated into one of the Hopi Kivas. The older Hopi clansmen said they wished to have the stories preserved because the young were not interested. Dr. Fewkes wanted the stories published with illustrations by Mrs. Mullett in color but just before the publication was to begin, the depression hit and funds were not available. The original agreement with University of Arizona was to have these works published with the illustrations. Various interferences prevented this. The earlier editions came out with some of the illustrations on the back book jacket and on the inside cover pages.

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Mullett-Smith Press
1315 4th Street, SW  TH-7
Washington, DC 20024
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An interesting link to the work of a grand nephew of A.B. Mulett Fred B. Mullett Fred is an artist.