United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming)

United States historic place

US Post Office--Powell Main

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Main entrance from Bent Street

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Location| 270 N. Bent St., Powell, Wyoming
Coordinates| 44°45′19″N 108°45′28.5″W﻿ / ﻿44.75528°N 108.757917°W﻿ / 44.75528; -108.757917
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]

## 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

## External links

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* 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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See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Park County, Wyoming and List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming

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