United States Post Office (Yellowstone National Park)
The Yellowstone Main Post Office in Yellowstone National Park was built in Mammoth Hot Springs as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department (USPOD). The post office in Yellowstone was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized USPOD plans in the early twentieth century. The Yellowstone facility is an understated classical structure with a low hipped roof and rounded dormers that uses a plan and a basic design vocabulary similar to that used in other post offices in the program. However it also includes restrained French Renaissance Revival elements, the only post office in the western United States to merge these two styles.[2] It is somewhat at odds with the prevailing design theme expressed in other buildings in the former Fort Yellowstone district.[3] The Yellowstone Main Post Office is also a contributing property to the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District.[2]
US Post Office--Yellowstone Main | |
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| Location | Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming |
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| Coordinates | 44°58′37″N 110°41′56″W / 44.97699°N 110.69892°W |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | US Department of the Treasury; Louis A. Simon |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival/Moderne |
| MPS | Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900--1941, TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000789 |
| Added to NRHP | May 19, 1987[1] |
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b Kolva, H.J. (June 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Yellowstone Main Post Office. National Park Service. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
- ^ "Yellowstone Main Post Office". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 24, 2008.
External links
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- Yellowstone Main Post Office at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
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