Eureka in Humboldt County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
United States Post Office and Courthouse
c.1910
Photographed By Douglass Halvorsen, August 19, 2023
1. United States Post Office and Courthouse Marker
Inscription.
United States Post Office and Courthouse. c.1910. This Property Has Been Placed on the National Register of Historica Places by the United States Department of the Interior
This Property Has Been Placed on the National Register of Historica Places by the United States Department of the Interior
Erected by United States Department of the Interior.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Buildings.
Location. 40° 48.115′ N, 124° 9.838′ W. Marker is in Eureka, California, in Humboldt County. Marker is at the intersection of H Street and Route 101 when traveling south on H Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 514 H Street, Eureka CA, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Courthouse building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Statement of Significance: The significance of the Federal Building/United States Post Office and Courthouse in Eureka rests upon the building's intrinsic and representational values on a local level to the city. These values lie in three areas: architecture, art and politics/government. Architecturally the Post Office is representative of the eclectic classicism which distinguished most public buildings designed by the Treasury Department's Supervising Architect's office in the early 20th century. Although it may not have succeeded in its role as an example of good taste to be imitated by subsequent private structures, the building is perhaps the most refined of the early public architecture of Eureka. It is an excellent and locally prominent example of its genre - a small early public building. Similarly, the tempera murals commissioned for the courtroom by the Treasury Department in 1937 are locally important examples - Eureka's only ones - of the type of federally sponsored decorative artwork executed during the Depression. The Eureka murals were more skillfully painted than most of their contemporaries - excellent examples of the widespread social realist art movement of the thirties and forties. Finally, the Post Office represents Eureka's part of the extensive building project at the
Photographed By Douglass Halvorsen, August 19, 2023
2. United States Post Office and Courthouse Marker
turn of the century. As one of a very few such buildings erected in Northern California and one of the fewer survivors, it is a regionally important remnant of that early effort. As the first federal building in the city, the Post Office was a source of pride for Eurekans and a locally prominent symbol of the federal government. (Submitted on September 25, 2023, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon.)
Photographed By Douglass Halvorsen, August 19, 2023
3. United States Post Office and Courthouse
Photographed By Wikimedia Commons
4. United States Post Office and Custom House, 1911
Completed in 1910. Supervising Architect: James Knox Taylor
Credits. This page was last revised on October 9, 2023. It was originally submitted on September 23, 2023, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon. This page has been viewed 44 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on September 23, 2023, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon. 4. submitted on September 25, 2023, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
