Neillsville Post Office

	Neillsville Post Office
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Mural located inside the Neillsville Post Office.
Location	619 Hewett St.; Neillsville, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°33′40″N90°35′46″W / 44.56101°N 90.59603°W Coordinates: 44°33′40″N90°35′46″W / 44.56101°N 90.59603°W
Architectural style	Modern Movement
NRHP reference #	00001257
Added to NRHP	October 24, 2000

Last updated April 27, 2019

The Neillsville Post Office is a historic building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

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.

This building is the first federally owned post office in Neillsville. Before that, postal services were provided from a private location chosen by the postmaster at the time. From 1890 to 1938, that was from a site just to the north of this building.^[1]

In 1937 the Public Works Administration built the current building from a standardized plan, the same used for post offices in Stoughton and Hartford.^[1]

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Mural

The post office features a mural painted during a United States Department of the Treasury program that designated 1% of the building's cost of construction for art work.^[2] In the 1940 mural, artist John Van Koert depicts the 1854 vote in which Clark County's citizens chose O'Neill's Mills (later Neillsville) as the county seat over Weston Rapids, a little mill town three miles up the Black River. Supposedly James O'Neill provided free whiskey, so that many voters from Weston Rapids were too tipsy to traverse the boom across O'Neill Creek, and didn't make it to the polls, tipping the vote toward O'Neill's Mills.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 Causier, Charles W. (1993-12-29). "Neillsville Post Office" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior - National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
↑ "1937 Neillsville Post Office". City of Neillsville. Retrieved 2015-06-20.

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[nrhp_nom-1] 1 2 3 4 Causier, Charles W. (1993-12-29). "Neillsville Post Office" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior - National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-09.

[2] "1937 Neillsville Post Office". City of Neillsville. Retrieved 2015-06-20.