US Post Office--Powell Main | |
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 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]
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]