The Evanston Main Post Office in
Evanston, Wyoming
Evanston is a city in and the county seat of Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 12,359 at the 2010 census. It is located near the border with Utah.
History
Evanston was named after James A. Evans, a civil engineer for th ...
was built in 1905 as part of a facilities improvement program by the
United States Post Office Department
The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, in the form of a Cabinet department, officially from 1872 to 1971. It was headed by the postma ...
. The
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...
in Evanston was nominated to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...
(NRHP) as part of a thematic study comprising twelve
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the sou ...
post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.
It was NRHP-listed as U.S. Post Office-Evanston Main.
See also
References
External links
* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Evanston Main Post Officeat the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
*
Beaux-Arts architecture in Wyoming
Government buildings completed in 1905
Buildings and structures in Uinta County, Wyoming
Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Uinta County, Wyoming
Evanston, Wyoming
1905 establishments in Wyoming
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