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United States Post Office–Yuma Main

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Built
  
1933

NRHP Reference #
  
85003109

Area
  
2,000 m²

Architect
  
Roy Place

Built by
  
Bannister Field Co.

Opened
  
1933

Added to NRHP
  
3 December 1985

United States Post Office–Yuma Main

Location
  
370 W. Third St., Yuma, Arizona

MPS
  
Historic US Post Offices in Arizona, 1900--1941, TR

Architectural styles
  
Beaux-Arts architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, Mission Revival architecture

Similar
  
Old Post Office, United States Post Office an, Old Post Office Building, Old Athens - Alabama Main Post, Sitka US Post Office and Court

The U.S. Post Office—Yuma Main, also known as Yuma Main Post Office or Yuma Downtown Postal Annex, is the former main post office serving Yuma, Arizona. The post office was constructed in 1933. The building's design, a work of architect Roy Place, is a blend of the Beaux Arts and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. The design includes a loggia supported by Corinthian columns, wrought iron railings and window bars, a molded belt course between the building's two stories, a projecting bracketed cornice, and a red tile roof. The post office was built toward the end of the Beaux-Arts phase of federal building design, as government architects shifted to a "starved classicism" style in the ensuing years.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1985.

References

United States Post Office–Yuma Main Wikipedia