Piggott Post Office

United States historic place

Significant dates

Piggott Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property


36°23′0″N 90°11′33″W / 36.38333°N 90.19250°W / 36.38333; -90.19250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1937 (1937)
Architect	Dan Rhodes, Louis A. Simon
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
Part of	Piggott Commercial Historic District (ID09000867)
MPS	Post Offices with Section Art in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000917^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 14, 1998
Designated CP	November 4, 2009

The Piggott Post Office is located at 119 North 3rd Street in central Piggott, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building, with a flat roof that has an encircling parapet, and a concrete foundation. Construction on the building took place mostly in 1937, but was not completed until 1941. The building is noted for its lobby murals, painted by Iowa native Dan Rhodes, with funding from the United States Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, a Depression-era jobs program for artists. The murals depict air mail postal service.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Piggott Post Office". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved December 18, 2014.