Design for the United States Post Office and Court House at Evansville, Ind. Mr. William A. Potter, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department – Vintage Wall Art
![Design for the United States Post Office and Court House at Evansville, Ind. Mr. William A. Potter, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e4/e4dfb70048e2-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Design for the United States Post Office and Court House at Evansville, Ind. Mr. William A. Potter, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department
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This is a design drawing, reproduced as a photo-engraving, for a combined United States Post Office and Court House in Evansville, Indiana. The record credits William A. Potter, Supervising Architect in the Treasury Department, and the plate appeared in the *New York Sketch Book of Architecture*, volume 2, plate 33. Combined post office and courthouse buildings were a common model for federal construction in the late nineteenth century, when the Treasury's architects produced standardized designs for towns across the country. The record gives no date, so the drawing's exact year is unknown, but its publication in a architectural periodical shows how these government buildings were presented to professional audiences as examples of current design.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : photo-engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: New York Sketch Book of Architecutre, vol. 2, plate 33. Reference copy may be in SSF - Courthouses. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--WORKS; Post offices--Ind.; Ind.--Evansville; Courthouses--Ind.; Geogr.; Arch.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140516 |
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