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U.S. POST OFFICE

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1937, Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 215 1st Ave.

The red brick, Flemish bond Colonial Revival post office is enriched with a dentiled cornice and rectangular wooden cupola. Distinctive on the interior is the Public Works Administration (PWA) mural, Amory in 1889 (1939) painted by John McCrady. McCrady (1911–1968) was born in Canton, studied art in Corinth and New York City, and was influenced by his teachers Thomas Hart Benton and Kenneth H. Miller. His highly animated mural contains three scenes of early Amory in one panorama, with a smoke-billowing locomotive in the background.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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CITY HALL (ST. LOUISSAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD OFFICE BUILDING)

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "U.S. POST OFFICE", [Amory, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR2.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 174-175.

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