Paris Post Office
Arkansas, United States
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
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The Paris Post Office stands at 206 North Elm Street in downtown Paris, Arkansas, a modest Colonial Revival building completed in 1937 as part of a major federal building project. Its interior mural, commissioned through the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts and painted by Joseph P. Vorst, drew public outcry over a first design showing a raggedly dressed African-American man with mules approaching a tarpaper shack. Vorst defended the scene as an accurate picture of the area, then submitted an alternate design of a stock farm and cotton gin, which was accepted. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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- Type
- post office
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Arkansas, United States
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