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Portales Main Post Office

United States of America

The Portales Main Post Office, on W. 1st St. in Portales in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, was built in 1937.

Post office at north corner of First Street and Avenue A in Portales, New Mexico; seen from the southeast, across First.
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The Portales Main Post Office, on W. 1st St. in Portales in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, was built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as US Post Office-Portales Main. It is a one-story red brick building. It includes an oil-on-canvas mural by Santa Fe artist Theodore Van Soelen titled "Buffalo Range", executed in 1939 under a New Deal program, the Federal Works Agency's Section of Fine Arts program. The mural is about 5 by 12 feet (1.5 m × 3.7 m). 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Portales Main Post Office”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Portales Main Post Office is post office in Portales, New Mexico, United States, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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