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United States Post Office Building

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1939, Louis A. Simon and Neal Melick. 1st St. N.E. between Central and 1st Ave. N.E.
  • United States Post Office Building (David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim)

Here is a 1930s version of the Colonial Revival, with red brick walls and a small cupola. The base, pilasters, and entablature are all here, but they have been “modernized,” i.e., simplified to thin, almost two-dimensional suggestions of those elements. In its park setting the building successfully states its public use.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "United States Post Office Building", [Clarion, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-NO058.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 367-367.

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