The former McGehee Post Office building is a historic post office facility at 201 North Second Street in McGehee, Arkansas . The
5-628: Single story masonry building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon , and built in 1937. A Colonial Revival building, it features a cupola with round-arch louvered vents, and a front entry that is flanked by Doric columns supporting a cornice with a golden eagle. The building served as a post office until 1999, after which it was purchased by the McGehee Industrial Foundation. The building
10-628: The National Register of Historic Places) among others. The competitions were met with enthusiasm by the architect community but were also marred by scandal as when Taylor picked Cass Gilbert for the New York Customs job. Taylor and Gilbert had been members of the Gilbert & Taylor architecture firm in St. Paul, Minnesota . In 1913 the act was repealed. This architecture -related article
15-749: The most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among its creations are the well-known State , War , and Navy building (now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building ) in Washington, DC , the San Francisco Mint Building, and smaller post offices that have served communities for decades, many recognized as National Historic Landmarks , listed in the National Register of Historic Places , or designated as local landmarks . Until 1893
20-668: The office used in-house architects. In 1893 Missouri Congressman John Charles Tarsney introduced a bill that allowed the Supervisory Architect to have competitions among private architects for major structures. Competitions were held for the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House , Cleveland Federal Building , U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland, and U.S. Customhouse in San Francisco (which are all now on
25-679: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. This article about a property in Desha County, Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Office of the Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939. The office handled some of
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