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Brewster County Appraisal District (U.S. Post Office)

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1938, Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 107 W. Ave E.

Alpine’s former post office sports one of the more whimsical of the Section of Fine Arts murals in Texas, View of Alpine, painted in 1940 by José Moya del Pino, a royal portraitist in Spain before he moved to San Francisco in the 1930s. Moya’s 12 x 4–foot depiction of Alpine shows three people lying on the ground and reading, with cattle quietly standing behind them and the city of Alpine and its framing mountains in the distance.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Brewster County Courthouse
Holland Hotel
First Baptist Church of Alpine
Nolte-Rooney House
Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Brewster County Appraisal District (U.S. Post Office)", [Alpine, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV7.

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, 438-438.

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