
Kansas City architect Curtiss produced a series of buildings for different railroad corporations in South Texas and the South Plains that explored the architectural possibilities of reinforced concrete construction. The Post station is a long, one-story building, rectangular in plan, sheathed in glazed terra-cotta. Historic photographs indicate that the roof structure supported on heavy corner piers sheltered open-air spaces that subsequently were filled in. A built-in bench faces the track. Curtiss’s system of simplified, high-relief architectural ornament abstracts conventional classical detail from the material and processes of construction, giving the diminutive station its architectonic power. The Post station is Curtiss’s only surviving railroad building in Texas.