By any definition, the main Post Office building in Fort Worth, TX, is a commanding presence. Located on the southern edge of the city’s central business district, the massive, three-story, rectangular structure occupies an entire 1 1/5-acre city block and is bounded by two key throughways, Lancaster and Jennings avenues. The reinforced concrete structure was constructed in the early 1930s, and its cut limestone exterior was a uniquely regional interpretation of Beaux Arts/Classical Revival architecture by the American master Wyatt C. Hedrick. A recent exterior restoration and cleaning has brought renewed public attention, as well as rekindled devotion, to the historic structure’s many special attributes. PROSOCO cleaned the intricate exterior of the Postal Service’s main Fort Worth office on two separate occasions, in 1982 and again in 2015. Both efforts were integral to restoration initiatives at these important junctures in the historic building’s existence.

The Downtown Station (U.S. Post Office Fort Worth) possesses a flat roof balanced above the second floor and surrounded by a narrow U-shaped third floor. Clad in Cordova Cream limestone quarried near Austin, TX, the building features a foundation perimeter wall and steps made of Texas granite. With a stately and prominent public face, the north facade boasts a 17-bay central block containing 16 colossal-order unfluted columns of limestone. The regionally influenced Corinthian capitals consist of shorthorn cattle, acanthus leaves and longhorn Bucrania — a nod to the importance of the cattle industry and its economic impact on Fort Worth.