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United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)


Creator Display
  • Stanton, Boles, Maguire, and Church (architecture firm, 1955-1969)
  • Church, Walter Enos (1893-1989)
  • Rollin H. Boles (architect, 1913-1992)
  • Keith Robert Maguire (architect,1909-1990)
  • Glenn Stanton (architect, 1896-1969)
Creator
Date
  • 1966
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.
  • 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.
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2017)
View
  • exterior
Temporal
  • 1960-1969
Subject
Work Type
Location
Street Address
  • 52643 Columbia River Highway
Rights
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.
Identifier
  • OR_ColumbiaCounty_UnitedStatesPostOfficeScappooseOregon_004
Source
  • Heritage Consulting Group. "Scappoose Post Office, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form."
Media
Institution
Submission Date
  • 06/01/2017
Modified
  • 08/11/2022
Collections

APA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. (29 Mar 2024). United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon) Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71cc00b

MLA

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. 29 Mar 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71cc00b

Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-03-29. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71cc00b

Wiki

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