United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming)

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US Post Office--Powell Main
Main entrance from Bent Street
United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming) is located in Wyoming
United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming)
United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming) is located in the United States
United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming)
Location270 N. Bent St., Powell, Wyoming
Coordinates44°45′19″N 108°45′28.5″W / 44.75528°N 108.757917°W / 44.75528; -108.757917
Built1937
ArchitectLouis A. Simon; Verona Burkhard
MPSHistoric US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900--1941, TR
NRHP reference No.87000787
Added to NRHPMay 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]

References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Powell Main Post Office". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 24, 2008.
  3. ^ Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984 p. 233
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