The Torrington Main Post Office in

Torrington, Wyoming Torrington is a city in and the county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 6,119 at the 2020 census, down from 6,501 at the 2010 census. It is the home of Eastern Wyoming College, and is the surrounding region's ...

was built in 1932 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, established in 1792. From 1872 to 1971, it was officially in the form of a Cabinet of the Un ...

. The

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

in Torrington was nominated to the

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as part of a thematic study comprising twelve

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post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.

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* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Torrington Main Post Office
at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office Neoclassical architecture in Wyoming Government buildings completed in 1931 Buildings and structures in Goshen County, Wyoming Post office buildings in Wyoming Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming National Register of Historic Places in Goshen County, Wyoming Torrington, Wyoming {{Wyoming-NRHP-stub