It was built in 1938-1939 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1992, as part of the Nebraska Post Offices Which Contain Section Artwork MPS.

Included in the listing are three contributing objects: two ornamental lampposts flanking the staircase to the main entrance and a flagpole.

It was painted by G. Glenn Newell, an artist and dairy farmer from Dutchess County, New York, and installed by post office workers in May 1940.

[2] The edifice's mural, titled "The Crossing" and painted by G. Glenn Newell, was one of hundreds commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Newell received a notice from the section inviting him to submit designs for the Crawford Post Office in August 1939.

Newell originally conceived the idea of including a poem with the mural, which read, "Seeking the westward sunshine/ Leaving storms behind/ Taking sires of the future with them/ And dams of a better kind."

[2] The Crawford postmasters have included John Walsh, Cyrus Fairchild, Lee Van Voorhis, C.W.