Paris Post Office, Paris

Name: Paris Post Office
Address: Paris, United States

#8 among attractions in Paris

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The Paris Post Office is located at 206 North Elm Street in downtown Paris, Arkansas. It is located in a modest Colonial Revival building, built in 1937 as part of a major federal building project. It is notable for the controversy over its interior artwork, which was funded by the Treasury Department's Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and executed by Joseph P. Vorst. The murals proposed by Vorst depicted a raggedly dressed African-American with several skinny mules, approaching a tarpaper shack that appears to be the man's home. There was public outcry, with Vorst defending the depiction as an accurate rendition of the area during a visit he made. He then submitted an alternate drawing, which showed a stock farm, cotton gin, and other more benign imagery, which was accepted. ()

Built: 1938 (86 years ago)Coordinates: 35°17'39"N, 93°43'47"W

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Paris Post Office – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Paris First, Methodist Episcopal Church, Short Mountain Creek Bridge, Paris Commercial Historic District.

~1130 ftSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture, Romanesque architecture
Paris First, Paris
6 min walk • The First Christian Church is a historic church at 120 East Walnut Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a T-shaped single-story building, constructed out of stone and concrete between 1930 and 1936 for a congregation of the Disciples of Christ organized about 1890.
~140 ftSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Methodist Episcopal Church, Paris
1 min walk • The First United Methodist Church, originally the Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church building at 205 North Elm Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with Late Gothic Revival styling, built between 1917 and 1928 for a congregation founded in the early 1870s.
1.4 miNW
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Short Mountain Creek Bridge, Paris
37 min walk • The Short Mountain Creek Bridge carries Short Mountain Road across Short Mountain Creek, northwest of Paris, Arkansas. It is a single-span Parker pony truss bridge, with a span measuring 92 feet and a total structure length of 93 feet.
~840 ftS
Interesting neighbourhood, Romanesque architecture
Paris Commercial Historic District, Paris
5 min walk • The Paris Commercial Historic District encompasses much of the commercial heart of downtown Paris, Arkansas. Centered on the courthouse square, where the Logan County Courthouse, Eastern District is located, the district contains a well-preserved collection of mainly commercial architecture from the turn of the 20th century.

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Nearby attractions include Methodist Episcopal Church, Paris (1 min walk), Paris Commercial Historic District, Paris (5 min walk), Paris First, Paris (6 min walk).