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The former Morrilton Post Office is a historic
post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
building at 117 North Division Street in downtown Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built of brick and limestone in a simplified
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
style. Its facade is divided into five
bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...
s, the outer two separated by brick piers from the inner three. The inner three are articulated by limestone
pilaster In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...
s, and feature large multipane windows and the main entrance. The interior features a mural entitled ''Men at Rest'' by Richard Sargent, painted in the 1930s as part of a federal works project. The building was listed on the
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in 1998. The building currently houses the Conway County Office of Emergency Management and Conway County 911 Services.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Conway County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Conway County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Conway County, Arka ...
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List of United States post offices Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971). Notable U.S. post offices include indivi ...
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List of United States post office murals This is a list of United States post office murals, produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943 through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury. The principal objective of the United States ...


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Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Art Deco architecture in Arkansas Government buildings completed in 1936 Buildings and structures in Morrilton, Arkansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Conway County, Arkansas 1936 establishments in Arkansas {{ConwayCountyAR-NRHP-stub