US Post Office -- Pampa Main - Pampa, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 32.190 W 100° 57.632
14S E 322262 N 3934309
The 7th and present building was erected 1933-34 by the WPA. Limestone carvings depict the agrarian-petroleum based economy: plow, wheat, oil. Of Spanish colonial design, the interior ceiling has vigas with Indian designs in gold leaf.
Waymark Code: WM71T8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/20/2009
Views: 6
At the junction of US 60 and Hwys 70, 152, and 273, Pampa is the seat of Gray County. In 1888 a telegraph station on the Southern Kansas Railroad developed here, and was named Glasgow. Renamed Sutton a year later, a post office was established in 1892 and the town was named Pampa by George Tyng, manager of the White Deer Land Company.
On the corner of the building is a Texas Historical Commission marker. The text of that marker:
1934 PAMPA POST OFFICE BUILDING
A post Office was established here in 1892, and in 1902 the town of Pampa was formally platted. Following the discovery of oil in the area in 1926, Pampa experienced a population boom which created a need for a larger Post Office. Built in 1933-34 by the Works Progress Administration, this structure exhibits Spanish Renaissance Revival architectural influences in its elongated rounded windows, tile roof, arcaded loggia and decorative modillions and stone work.