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United States Post Office Building
1935, Louis A. Simon. Lake St., north of 3rd St.
This small-town building is one of the Post Office Department's representative designs. In the 1930s the style of governmental buildings such as this one at Storm Lake was referred to as Regency; in a loose sense it was part of the rage for the Colonial Revival during the depression years of the 1930s. The two projecting side wings help to concentrate one's attention on the central pavilion, which has a stepped recessed door and windows and a mansard roof set back from the parapet.
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