The former United States Post Office in
The Dalles
The Dalles is the largest city of Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The population was 16,010 at the 2020 census, and it is the largest city on the Oregon side of the Columbia River between the Portland Metropolitan Area, and Hermiston ...
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Oregon
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United States
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, is a historic building constructed in 1916. Executed from standardized federal plans in the
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
style, it was the first federal building in The Dalles and one of a set of nine built in Oregon in the 1910s. It remained in operation as a
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 serv ...
longer than seven of the other eight in that group.
[.] The building was added 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 v ...
in 1985.
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See also
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References
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*, National Register of Historic Places cover documentation
1916 establishments in Oregon
Buildings and structures in The Dalles, Oregon
Former post office buildings
Government buildings completed in 1916
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Wasco County, Oregon
Significant US Post Offices in Oregon 1900-1941 TR
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