Delavan Post Office

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Delavan Post Office
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Delavan Post Office
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Location335 E. Walworth Ave.
Delavan, Wisconsin
Coordinates 42°38′00″N88°38′39″W / 42.63335°N 88.64413°W / 42.63335; -88.64413 Coordinates: 42°38′00″N88°38′39″W / 42.63335°N 88.64413°W / 42.63335; -88.64413
Arealess than one acre
Built1914
Architect Oscar Wenderoth
Architectural style Classical Revival
MPS United States Post Office Construction in Wisconsin MPS
NRHP reference # 00001260 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 24, 2000

The Delavan Post Office is located in Delavan, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

Delavan, Wisconsin Place in Wisconsin, United States

Delavan is a city in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 8,463 at the 2010 census. It is located 45 miles southwest of Milwaukee. The city is located partially within the Town of Delavan but the two entities are politically independent.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

It is located on Delavan's Vitrified Brick Street.

It is a two-story building which has six brick pilasters with Tuscan capitals dividing its front facade into five bays, overlooking wide granite steps. It has a carved, stone architrave wrapping around the building, beneath a brick frieze and denticulated cornice. [2]

Tuscan order

The Tuscan order is in effect a simplified Doric order, with un-fluted columns and a simpler entablature with no triglyphs or guttae. While relatively simple columns with round capitals had been part of the vernacular architecture of Italy and much of Europe since at least Etruscan architecture, the Romans did not consider this style to be a distinct architectural order. Instead the Tuscan order, presented as a standardized formal order, is an invention of Italian Renaissance writers largely motivated by nationalism.

Architrave Lintel beam element in Classical architecture

An architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.

Cornice horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture

A cornice is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown.

Its interior includes a mural painted in 1984 by Rosemary Roth showing scenes from Delavan's history. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Charles W. Causier; Joseph G. Jurkiewicz (December 29, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Delavan Post Office". National Park Service . Retrieved March 26, 2018. With seven photos, the 6th being of post office mural.