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US Post Office--Powell Main
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Main entrance from Bent Street
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Location	270 N. Bent St., Powell, Wyoming
Coordinates	44°45′19″N 108°45′28.5″W / 44.75528°N 108.757917°W / 44.75528; -108.757917
Built	1937
Architect	Louis A. Simon; Verona Burkhard
MPS	Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900--1941, TR
NRHP reference No.	87000787
Added to NRHP	May 22, 1987

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.

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.

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. October 24, 2008.
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

External links

• Photographs of the Powell Post Office at the National Park Service's NRHP database
• Powell Main Post Office at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

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See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Park County, Wyoming and List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming

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