United States Post Office (Powell, Wyoming)

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US Post Office--Powell Main
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Main entrance from Bent Street
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Location270 N. Bent St., Powell, Wyoming
Coordinates 44°45′19″N108°45′28.5″W / 44.75528°N 108.757917°W / 44.75528; -108.757917 Coordinates: 44°45′19″N108°45′28.5″W / 44.75528°N 108.757917°W / 44.75528; -108.757917
Built1937
ArchitectLouis A. Simon; Verona Burkhard
MPS Historic 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]

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References

  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. 2008-10-24.
  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