The Powell Main Post Office in Powell, Wyoming, was built in 1937 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Powell was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.[2]
US Post Office--Powell Main | |
 Main entrance from Bent Street | |
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| Location | 270 N. Bent St., Powell, Wyoming |
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| Coordinates | 44°45′19″N 108°45′28.5″W / 44.75528°N 108.757917°W |
| Built | 1937 |
| Architect | Louis A. Simon; Verona Burkhard |
| MPS | Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900--1941, TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000787 |
| Added to NRHP | May 22, 1987[1] |
The post office contains the mural, Powell's Agriculture Resulting from the Shoshine Irrigation Project by Verona Burkhard, painted in 1938 and funded by the Section of Painting and Sculpture.[3]
References edit
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Powell Main Post Office". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 24, 2008.
- ^ Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984 p. 233
External links edit
- Photographs of the Powell Post Office at the National Park Service's NRHP database
- Powell Main Post Office at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
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