U.S. Post Office, 1201 Eleventh Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Significance: The U.S. Post Office, designed by the local architectural firm of Royer and Anglemeyer in 1931, is the city's outstanding example of Art Deco style. The monumental Neoclassical building, of Indiana limestone with a granite foundation, is richly embellished with linear, low-relief, ornamentation. The interior of the post office, which displays multi-colored marble wainscoting and two murals by W.P.A artist Lorin Thompson, is in virtually unaltered condition. The building was the second federal post office to be erected in Altoona in the 20th century, and its construction symbolizes the city's unprecedented growth during the 1910s and 1920s.
Survey number: HABS PA-5505
Building/structure dates: 1931- 1933 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work