A color postcard of the La Junta post office in Colorado. The caption at the bottom left reads: “Post Office, La Junta, Colo”. The postcard was postmarked Dodge & Trinidad August 13, 1922 and was sent by Erie & Marie Raton, New Mexico Box 554 to Miss Eva Beezley Bisbee, Ariz Box 2021. The message on the back in blue ink reads: “8/13/22 Dear Niece Will write you later rec'd your letter O.K. We are back to Raton, so you can write to us. Hoping everybody is all O. K. With Love Erie & Marie”. The postcard was published by Commercial Chrome and was sent with a green one-cent George Washington stamp. Calvin Cain Collection.

The La Junta Post Office was built in 1915 and designed by architect Oscar Wenderoth in a Spanish Colonial Style in stucco brick with two floors and a basement. Mr. Swanson from Chicago, Illinois was the building contractor and he brought in G.A. Dahlgren for superintendent of the project. Dahlgren remained in La Junta for a time building many homes and businesses. At the time of its opening, M.R. McCauley worked as the Postmaster there. The post office was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and remains in use to this day after several remodelings of the interior.

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