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U.S. Post Office

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1912, Oscar Wenderoth, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 600 Center Ave.

The elegant seven-bay loggia is based on the arcades of Brunelleschi’s fifteenth-century Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, complete with tondi between the arches and a tall entablature carrying bronze letters. The tall, one-story buff brick building has limestone columns, arches, pilaster capitals, and stringcourses and a red barrel tile roof to complete the Italian Renaissance character. The post office is the largest and most architecturally refined of this stylistic type in Texas.

Across the street at 516 Center, the former three-story Montgomery Ward Building (1929) features its characteristic white terra-cotta veneer with green accents and the female image representing Progress in the shaped parapet.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

J. A. Walker House
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Brownwood Manor (Citizens National Bank)
Town Houses (Brownwood National Bank)
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Station

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "U.S. Post Office", [Brownwood, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FC27.

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, 295-295.

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