The long and broad flight of stairs that leads up in stages to the square pyramidal-roofed corner portico of the large red brick box of a building gives dignity to conducting postal business. Long banks of windows light the two outer sides of the building and ornamentation consists primarily of blue post office signage.
Anne Carter Lee, "U.S. Post Office", [Wytheville, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-WY6.
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 453-453.
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