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Eagle Pass Public Library (U.S. Post Office)

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1912, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 589 Main St.

The former post office, similar to other buildings of Taylor’s tenure, is a two-story stucco-faced Italianate structure with an inset loggia of five arched openings. The building has a red tile hipped roof over projecting wooden brackets, with green-painted polygonal ventilation ports under the wide eaves. A horizontal band of windows separated by engaged Tuscan colonettes forms a shallow, attic-like second floor. The interior retains the post office’s coffered ceilings, pendant light fixtures, and metal grillework. The building has been Eagle Pass’s public library since 1964.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Eagle Pass Public Library (U.S. Post Office)", [Eagle Pass, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EL2.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 423-423.

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