Visalia WPA Post Office (#0727)

The central post office in Visailia. I was mainly planning to use Visalia as just a place for lunch, but luckily saw the central post office as I was coming through town. The post office is a wonderful example of the art deco architecture supported by the New Deal through the Works Progress Administration in the early 1930's. Particularly striking to me was the effort in preserving the building, including the preservation of the relatively ornate newspaper racks in front of the building. See nearby pictures for more detail, see Wikipedia regarding history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office-Visalia_Town_Center_Station