Post Office - Pasadena TX
Photo: Eveline Evans © All Rights Reserved 04/20/2019
Project type: Federal Facilities, Post Offices
New Deal Agencies: Treasury Department
Started: 1939
Quality of Information: Moderate
Marked:
Yes
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
This one-story brick building with large porch, supported by six large columns, was constructed in 1939 with Treasury Department funds under the Federal Works Agency.
Cornerstone:
James A. Farley
Postmaster General
John M. Carmody
Federal Works Administrator
W. Englebert Reynolds
Supervising Architect
Neal A. Melick
Supervising Engineer
1939
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Cornerstone - Post Office - Pasadena TX
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Post Office - Pasadena TX
Source notes
Cornerstone.
Project originally submitted by Eveline Evans on April 23, 2019.
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I am writing the National Register nomination for this building and will share the final draft when it is approved!
In the meantime, the designer was Carl F. Guenther of Cleveland, Ohio, who won 2 1/2 of the ten prizes for exterior designs for small post offices in the first open contest (1938) for federal project design since the early 20th century.