A Last Romance for the Yale St. Post Office

Mural at former Heights Finance Station Post Office, 1050 Yale St., Houston Heights

The recently dumped Heights Finance Station post office at Yale and 11th streets was treated to a makeover this month, as demolition looms on the horizon. If all goes as planned, the building will eventually be brushed aside to make way for the younger-and-likely-prettier Heights Central Station mixed-use shopping center headed for the site; until then, it’s playing canvas for some Houston graffiti artists, including Wiley Robertson (one of the usual suspects behind giant love notes spotted around town).

A reader sends a fresh batch of lunchtime snapshots of the mural, which seems to have been wrapped up in the last few days:

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Mural at former Heights Finance Station Post Office, 1050 Yale St., Houston Heights

Robertson’s signature shows up on the mural, along with a few others:

Mural at former Heights Finance Station Post Office, 1050 Yale St., Houston Heights

A recurring figure of artist ACK!’s also makes an agape appearance to give a slightly belated valentine to a purple-haired figure bearing the handle AnnaVee Wins:

Mural at former Heights Finance Station Post Office, 1050 Yale St., Houston Heights

Photos: Phillip Wells

 

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One Comment

  • yup, that dude with the green hair pretty much sums up the service that place used to dish out. i always wondered if it was a DMV employee training facility.