![]() A significant historical year for this entry is 1937. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Architecture. After the post office moved from this building in 1985, it became the home of the Baytown Historical Museum.Įrected 1988 by Texas Historical Commission. Simon, the Early International style building features an interior fresco mural commissioned as part of the Federal Arts Program of the Works Progress Administration. It is in Goose Creek in Baytown in Harris County Texasīuilt in 1936-37 as the Goose Creek Post Office, this structure served as the area's main postal facility for almost fifty years. This historical marker was erected in 1988 by Texas Historical Commission. , Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1988. After the post office moved from this building in 1985, it became the home of the Baytown Historical Museum. ![]() , Built in 1936-37 as the Goose Creek Post Office, this structure served as the area's main postal facility for almost fifty years. It took a lot of shoe leather to wear these depressions in the marble floor in front of teller cages in the lobby.Baytown Post Office. These marble columns feature egg-and-dart banding on the capitals. Lamp post with the T&P freight terminal in the background. The post office box doors feature both key-pattern bands and medallions. The bottom photo shows the edge of a table in the lobby. The building also features key-pattern (fret) bands. The ceilings of the central post office and of the adjacent Texas & Pacific passenger terminal are surely the most impressive in town. īut gave the building a Fort Worth flavor with Cowrinthian capitals atop columns.Īnother lion on a table leg in the lobby. Some views of Wyatt Hedrick’s central post office:įor the post office Hedrick began with beaux arts and classical styles. Two weeks later the public viewed the new post office, which replaced the facility in the 1896 federal building/post office on Jennings Avenue. In February 1933 the Star-Telegram published a sneak preview of the new post office. On Jthe Dallas Morning News reported that a construction contract had been awarded. Clip is from the JanuDallas Morning News. On JanuHedrick announced that construction bids on the $1.24 million ($17 million today) job would be advertised soon. Lancaster.) Clip is from the November 20 Dallas Morning News. (Front Street soon would be renamed “Lancaster Avenue” in honor of T&P president John L. On November 19 Hedrick presented preliminary sketches to the Treasury Department’s supervising architect. Planning for the ambitious project began in 1930. Inside and out, the post office would remain among the most photogenic buildings in town. In 1933 his central post office would open. His Texas & Pacific passenger terminal and Texas & Pacific freight terminal had opened in 1931. Hedrick’s architectural firm was turning a five-block stretch of Lancaster Avenue into a showcase of his firm’s artistry on a grand scale. As the decade of the 1930s progressed, the firm of architect Wyatt Hedrick continued to pack the hottest drafting pencil in the West.
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