{"nrhp_refnum":"86003236","name":"US Post Office-Pampa Main","other_names":["Main Post Office,Pampa,Texas"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"120 E. Foster","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pampa","county":"Gray County","state":"TX","lat":35.53609950300006,"lon":-100.96048704099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A federally owned post office at 120 E. Foster in Pampa, Gray County, Texas, built 1933-1934 as a reinforced-concrete building with limestone veneer and a red mission tile hipped roof. It was designed by DeWitt & Washburn of Dallas and T.P. Lippincott of Philadelphia.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of Spanish Renaissance Revival style as used by the federal government for institutional buildings. Its unusually elaborate and expensive design during the Depression reflects the impact of the late-1920s Gray County oil boom. It was one of the most ornate post offices in the Texas Panhandle and became a major local landmark.","narrative":"This post office at 120 E. Foster in Pampa, Texas, was built in 1933 and 1934 in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style. It is a reinforced-concrete building faced in limestone, with a red mission tile roof, round arches, hand-forged window grilles and a carved frieze whose medallions show a plow, an oil derrick, a beehive and a shock of wheat. Inside, the lobby has marble floors and columns and a coffered ceiling stenciled in green, red, blue, buff and gilt. The design was by DeWitt & Washburn of Dallas and T.P. Lippincott of Philadelphia. Its size and ornament reflect the oil boom of the late 1920s, when Pampa grew from under a thousand residents to over ten thousand and its post office rose from third-class to first-class. Congressman Marvin Jones helped secure the Public Works Administration project. Opened in June 1934, it became a local landmark and gathering place, and remains one of Pampa's most architecturally significant buildings.","period_of_significance":"1933-1934","architect_builder":"DeWitt & Washburn, Dallas; T.P. Lippincott, Philadelphia; contractor Stibbard Construction Company","architectural_style":"Spanish Renaissance Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in use as a government post office; the form describes it as unaltered, with an added airlock at the entry.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.681395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/9721/40972161/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86003236.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003236/c2435deff8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003236/c2435deff8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Jeffrey Beall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Pampa_Main.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Beall</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Pampa_Main.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972161","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000663"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/gray-county/us-post-office-pampa-main-86003236/"}