DeWitt Post Office

United States historic post office

United States historic place


DeWitt Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


34°17′42″N 91°20′14″W / 34.29500°N 91.33722°W / 34.29500; -91.33722
Area	less than one acre
Built	1939 (1939)
Architect	Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon
Artist	William Traher
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Post Offices with Section Art in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000915^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 14, 1998

The DeWitt Post Office is a historic post office at 221 West Cross Street, DeWitt, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story brick and masonry structure with a hip roof, built in 1939 in a restrained Colonial Revival style. It is a basically rectangular structure, with a loading dock area projecting from the center of the rear. The building is notable for the murals in its lobby area, painted by William Traher of Denver, Colorado, and paid for with funds from the United States Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, a Depression-era project to support artists.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for DeWitt Post Office". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-30.