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Aspen Post Office

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1980, Copland, Hagman, Yaw. 235 Puppy Smith Rd. near Mill St.

A stark array of naked solar panels on top of a one-story, concrete block building with large glass panels may horrify fans of classical post offices. Some Post-modernists, however, fancy this example as suggesting a prototype style for the next generation of post offices—postal modern.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Aspen Post Office", [Aspen, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PT05.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 491-491.

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