United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)

Title:

United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)

Alternative:

United States Post Office, Downtown Station (Eugene, Oregon), U. S. Post Office (Eugene, Oregon), Eugene Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)

Photographer:

Teague, Edward, 1952-

Creator:

Gilbert Stanley Underwood (architect, 1890-1960), Carl Albert Morris (artist, 1911-1993)

Description:

National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1985)

View:

interior: detail of mural entitled Lumbering by Carl Morris

Provenance:

University of Oregon Libraries

Temporal:

1930-1939

Lcsubject:

Architecture, American, Architecture--United States

Style period:

Art Deco

Work type:

architecture (object genre), built works, views (visual works), interior views, public buildings, post offices, foyers (public), paintings (visual works), mural paintings (visual works)

Location:

Eugene >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States, Lane County >> Oregon >> United States, Oregon >> United States, United States

Street address:

520 Willamette Street

Date:

1938/1939

View date:

2010-01

Identifier:

pna_20003

Rights:

Educational Use Permitted

Rights holder:

Oregon State Historic Preservation Office

Source:

Gift of Edward H. Teague

Type:

Image

Format:

image/tiff

Material:

Concrete, Terra Cotta, Brick

Primaryset:

Building Oregon

Primaryset ssi:

Building Oregon

Institution:

University of Oregon

Note:

The murals by Carl Morris were completed in 1942 and installed by Morris and friends in 1943. The mural project, funded by the Works Projects Administration Federal Arts Project, is an example of the Social Realist style. The paintings, 6 ft. x 15 ft. each, represent Agriculture and Lumbering., This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.

Coordinates:

44.054034,-123.092844