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U.S. Post Office

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1934, Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 219 W. 3rd St.

Similar to many post offices built in the 1930s in Texas, this buff brick one-story building’s end bays step forward slightly. Limestone is used for the base, an upper stringcourse, and spandrel panels above and below windows. The post office contains the mural The Naming of Quanah (1938) by Dallas artist Jerry Bywaters, which depicts Quanah Parker in full ceremonial attire, holding a peace pipe, saluting “peace” to a well-armed Anglo-American. He is accompanied by regional products—cotton, wheat, cattle, oil wells, refineries, and the Medicine Mounds, a landscape feature sacred to the Comanche.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "U.S. Post Office", [Quanah, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AQ35.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 327-328.

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