Altoona Art Deco Post Office - Altoona, PA
N 40° 30.929 W 078° 24.068
17T E 720173 N 4488218
The post office is on Eleventh Avenue, in downtown Altoona. It is open for visitors during normal business hours. Parking is available on street and in a garage.
Waymark Code: WM15CG9
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2021
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This is the city's outstanding example of Art Deco style. The monumental Neoclassical building, of Indiana limestone with a granite foundation, is richly embellished with linear, low-relief, ornamentation. The interior of the post office, which displays multi-colored marble wainscoting and two murals by W.P.A artist Lorin Thompson, is in virtually unaltered condition. The building was the second federal post office to be erected in Altoona in the 20th century, and its construction symbolizes the city's unprecedented growth during the 1910s and 1920s.
(from listed website)
Style: Art Deco
Structure Type: Government
Architect: local architectural firm of Royer and Anglemeyer
Date Built: 1931
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