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United States Post Office Building

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1940, Louis A. Simon and Neal Melick. Southwest corner of N. Vine and W. Maple streets

One of the numerous post offices built throughout the United States in the Great Depression, this one illustrates the Federal phase of the American Colonial, realized in brick with stone trim.

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Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "United States Post Office Building", [West Union, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-NO353.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 453-453.

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