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U.S. POST OFFICE

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1938, Rudolph Stanley-Brown, for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 524 Main St.

Built by the PWA, this building features fluted, limestone Tuscan columns in antis screening an entrance loggia, with flanking brick walls laid in alternating courses of headers and stretchers. The wooden cupola is delicately detailed with fretwork and antefixes. Beulah Bettersworth, a pupil of George Bellows, painted the lobby’s mural, Out of the Soil (1940), which depicts nineteenth-century cotton production from cultivation to picking and ginning.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "U.S. POST OFFICE", [Columbus, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR18.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 182-182.

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