- City:
- Pasadena, TX
- Site Type:
- Federal Facilities, Post Offices
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
- Started:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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
Source notes
Cornerstone.
Site 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.