The Basin Main Post Office in
Basin, Wyoming
Basin is a town in, and the county seat of, Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2020 census. The community is located near the center of the Bighorn Basin with the Big Horn River east of the town. Basin's ...
was built in 1919 as part of a facilities improvement program by the
United States Post Office Department
The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, in the form of a Cabinet department, officially from 1872 to 1971. It was headed by the postma ...
. The
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...
in Basin was nominated to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
as part of a thematic study comprising twelve
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the s ...
post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.
See also
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Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Horn County, Wyoming
References
External links
* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Basin Main Post Officeat the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Government buildings completed in 1919
Buildings and structures in Big Horn County, Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming
1919 establishments in Wyoming
Neoclassical architecture in Wyoming
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