United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)

Title

United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)

LC Subject

Architecture, American Architecture Post office buildings

Creator

Stanton, Glenn Church, Walter E. Maguire, Keith R. Boles, Rollin H.

Creator Display

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

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

Interior View, postal service area, camera looking northwest

Temporal

1960-1969

Work Type

architecture (object genre) built works post offices

Location

Oregon >> United States Scappoose >> Columbia County >> Oregon >> United States

Street Address

52643 Columbia River Highway

Date

1966

Identifier

OR_ColumbiaCounty_UnitedStatesPostOfficeScappooseOregon_009

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Rights Holder

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

Heritage Consulting Group. "Scappoose Post Office, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form."

Type

Image

Format

image/tiff

Set

Building Oregon

Primary Set

Building Oregon

Institution

University of Oregon