- City:
- Lufkin, TX
- Site Type:
- Post Offices, Federal Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designers:
- Louis Simon, Supervising Architect
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“It is an excellent example of Neo-Classical architecture in a small Federal building. The simple brick building exhibits the Greek elements of Doric columns supporting an unenriched architrave at its main entry.
Built in 1935 under the auspices of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Louis Simon, Supervising Architect. After the passage of the Public Buildings Act of 1926, there was an increase in the construction of Federal Buildings in the United States. Public building construction was expanded in the 1930s to provide jobs during the Depression. It was during this period that the courthouse was built. Originally designed for use as the main Post Office for Lufkin, the interior of the building was reconfigured in 1988 for use solely as a courthouse and was named ‘Ward R. Burke United States Courthouse.'”
Source notes
GSA (https://www.gsa.gov/historic-buildings/ward-r-burke-us-courthouse-lufkin-tx#significance), accessed September 25, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on September 26, 2018.
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