In this variation of the PWA Moderne, the pilasters are of the same brick as the surrounding walls, and it is their vertical grooves which read most intensely. Stylized capitals surmount each of the pilasters, and they in turn are dropped down from a narrow horizontal terracotta band.
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United States Post Office Building
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