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Paris Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	206 N. Elm St., Paris, Arkansas
Coordinates	35°17′39″N 93°43′47″W / 35.29417°N 93.72972°W / 35.29417; -93.72972
Area	less than one acre
Built	1938 (1938)
Architect	Joseph P. Vorst, et al.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Post Offices with Section Art in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000923
Added to NRHP	August 14, 1998

The Paris Post Office is located at 206 North Elm Street in downtown Paris, Arkansas. It is located in a modest Colonial Revival building, built in 1937 as part of a major federal building project. It is notable for the controversy over its interior artwork, which was funded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, and executed by Joseph P. Vorst. The murals proposed by Vorst depicted a raggedly dressed African-American with several skinny mules, approaching a tarpaper shack that appears to be the man's home. There was public outcry, with Vorst defending the depiction as an accurate rendition of the area during a visit he made. He then submitted an alternate drawing, which showed a stock farm, cotton gin, and other more benign imagery, which was accepted.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"NRHP nomination for Paris Post Office". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-16.

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Media related to United States Post Office (Paris, Arkansas) at Wikimedia Commons
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