United States Post Office (Torrington, Wyoming)
Appearance
US Post Office--Torrington Main | |
Location | 2145 Main St., Torrington, Wyoming |
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Coordinates | 42°3′57.1″N 104°11′2.5″W / 42.065861°N 104.184028°W |
Built | 1932 |
Architect | US Department of the Treasury; Office of Supervising Architect |
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Art Deco |
MPS | Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900--1941, TR |
NRHP reference No. | 87000783 |
Added to NRHP | May 19, 1987[1] |
The Torrington Main Post Office in Torrington, Wyoming was built in 1932[2] as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Torrington was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Date on cornerstone: see photo.
- ^ "Torrington Main Post Office". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 24, 2008.
External links
[edit] Media related to Torrington, Wyoming post office at Wikimedia Commons
- Photographs of the Torrington Post Office at the National Park Service's NRHP database
- Torrington Main Post Office at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
Categories:
- Neoclassical architecture in Wyoming
- Government buildings completed in 1931
- Buildings and structures in Goshen County, Wyoming
- Post office buildings in Wyoming
- Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
- National Register of Historic Places in Goshen County, Wyoming
- Torrington, Wyoming
- Wyoming Registered Historic Place stubs