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United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)


Alternative Title
  • United States Post Office, Downtown Station (Eugene, Oregon)
  • U. S. Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)
  • Eugene Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)
Creator Display
  • Carl Albert Morris (artist, 1911-1993)
  • Gilbert Stanley Underwood (architect, 1890-1960)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1938/1939
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 1985)
View
  • interior: view of lobby and mailboxes and, overhead, mural entitled Agriculture by Carl Morris
View Date
  • 2010-01
Temporal
  • 1930-1939
MODS Note
  • 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.
  • 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.
Subject
Work Type
Style / Period
Location
Street Address
  • 520 Willamette Street
GPS Latitude
  • 44.054034
GPS Longitude
  • -123.092844
Material
  • Concrete, Terra Cotta, Brick
Rights
Rights Holder
  • Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
Identifier
  • pna_20003
Source
  • Gift of Edward H. Teague
Provenance
  • University of Oregon Libraries
Media
Institution
Submission Date
  • 04/29/2015
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (28 Mar 2024). United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67nc127

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 28 Mar 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67nc127

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-03-28. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67nc127

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67nc127 | title= United States Post Office (Eugene, Oregon) |author= |accessdate= 2024-03-28 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Morris, Carl A. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/MorrisCarlA
2 Underwood, Gilbert Stanley http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500033294
3 Teague, Edward H., 1952- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80157506
4 Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
5 Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
6 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
7 mural paintings (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300033644
8 post offices http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006036
9 interior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124520
10 paintings (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300033618
11 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
12 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
13 public buildings (governmental buildings) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300008059
14 lobbies http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300004264
15 No label found http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/workType/roomsandspaces
16 Art Deco http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300021426
17 Eugene >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5725846/
18 Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5735869/
19 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
20 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
21 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
22 Image http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image
23 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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