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U.S. Post Office

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1917, James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 219 E. Mills Ave.

The serene mantel of federal classicism exercises a calming effect amid the competing commercial buildings of the surrounding blocks. The two-story cube of rusticated limestone has a front loggia of six Ionic columns in antis. Windows in the end pavilions and along the N. Stanton Street side are recessed to give a pier-like character to the wall plane.

Visible from the Mills-Stanton corner is the seven-story BBVA Compass Building (former El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Building) of 1906 by Edward Kneezell at 416 N. Stanton, notable for its fine brickwork and handsomely detailed entrance portals. Unfortunately upper floor window bays were “modernized” with the installation of an aluminum and glass curtain wall.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "U.S. Post Office", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP22.

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, 482-482.

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