United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)
- Title
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United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)
- LC Subject
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Architecture, American
Architecture
Post office buildings
- Creator
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Stanton, Glenn
Church, Walter E.
Maguire, Keith R.
Boles, Rollin H.
- Creator Display
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Glenn Stanton (architect, 1896-1969)
Stanton, Boles, Maguire, and Church (architecture firm, 1955-1969)
Rollin H. Boles (architect, 1913-1992)
Keith Robert Maguire (architect,1909-1990)
Church, Walter Enos (1893-1989)
- Description
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The Scappoose Post Office opened in February 1966. In contrast to the monumental downtown post office buildings constructed before World War II, the “Thousands Series” post offices, like the Scappoose building, were relatively small, modern in appearance, and featured a 24-hour lobby including postal boxes, will call counter, and a retail space. Typically, these buildings were located outside downtown to accommodate plenty of customer parking and allow mail trucks to maneuver. The Scappoose Post Office embodies all of these design principals and is an excellent, intact example of the type. Thousand Series post offices were designed to be part of an efficient mail-processing network that relied on automation and truck transportation to efficiently process mail locally and then deliver it to destinations across the nation. Source: Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.
National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2017)
This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
- View
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exterior
- Temporal
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1960-1969
- Work Type
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architecture (object genre)
built works
post offices
- Location
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Oregon >> United States
Scappoose >> Columbia County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
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52643 Columbia River Highway
- Date
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1966
- Identifier
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OR_ColumbiaCounty_UnitedStatesPostOfficeScappooseOregon_007
- Rights
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
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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, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit photographer and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
- Source
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Heritage Consulting Group. "Scappoose Post Office, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form."
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Set
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Building Oregon
- Primary Set
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Building Oregon
- Institution
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University of Oregon