Lake Village Post Office

United States historic place


Lake Village Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


33°19′49″N 91°17′0″W / 33.33028°N 91.28333°W / 33.33028; -91.28333
Area	less than one acre
Built	1938 (1938)
Architect	Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon
Mural artist	Avery Johnson
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Post Offices with Section Art in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000916^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 14, 1998

The Lake Village Post Office is a historic post office at 206 South Cokley Street in Lake Village, Arkansas. The single-story brick Colonial Revival building was built c. 1939; it is roughly square in shape, with a four-sided cupola topped by a bell-cast roof and pyramid. The interior features a mural drawn by Avery Johnson and installed in 1941; it was financed by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, and depicts cypress trees and deer.^[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 Lake Village Post Office". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-04-14.